Abbas invited businessmen to invest in Palestinian businesses and not be deterred by “settler attacks”.
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“This is the conduct of an occupying army that should be tainted with all of these shames”, Mansour said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a weekly Cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office, April 19, 2015.
In a press conference Thursday with top defense officials, he praised soldiers and civilians who have acted to stop attackers in recent days.
Thirteen of Israel’s 120 MPs are Arabs.
Muslims fear Israel will seek to change the longstanding rules governing the site, which allow Jews to visit but not pray to avoid provoking tensions. The Palestinian assailants were both shot at the scene.
“One of the advantages Israel has is that there are many veterans of military units with operational combat experience”, he said.
On Saturday, a Palestinian stabbed to death an off-duty Israeli soldier walking with his wife and children, and a rabbi who rushed to their aid, on a street near the Western wall, police reported.
Stone-throwing and other attacks against Israelis have been on a slow boil for months. Further clashes broke out at the Bet El checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday. That, in turn, sparked angry threats from several Arab lawmakers who said Netanyahu had no moral authority over them.
Earlier in the day on Wednesday, an Israeli man shot a knife-wielding female terrorist who stabbed him in the back near the Lion’s Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem.
In Kiryat Arba, a settlement near Hebron, a Palestinian attacked an Israeli settler and then fled from the scene.
Israel’s best-selling newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, published a banner front-page heading reading “The Third Intifada”, though the violence has not reached the levels of past Palestinian uprisings.
Over the last week, four Israelis and seven Palestinians have been killed in the violence.
On Thursday, an Israeli soldier in Tel Aviv shot dead an Arab attacker after he stabbed and wounded four Israelis with a screwdriver, said police spokeswoman Luba Samri.
September 18 – As clashes continue on the mount, 26 Palestinians and five Israeli policemen are injured.
The incident occurred across the road from the Kirya military compound.
October 8 – Three more stabbing attacks take place.
On Wednesday, a Palestinian woman stabbed two Israelis in Jerusalem.
According to High Commissioner Zeid, growing frustration and despair of the prolonged occupation have led to escalating tensions, which caused high number of casualties resulting from the use of live ammunition by Israeli security forces.
Many Palestinians believe Israel is trying to expand Jewish presence at the site, a claim Israel strongly denies.
During their phone conversation Sunday, Abbas urged the United Nations chief to swiftly respond to the Palestinian request of worldwide protection before “matters get out of control”.
He expressed support, however, for the young protestors who recently barricaded themselves in the al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount and clashed with police.
The images are accompanied by a song about the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the duty to defend the shrine with knives, firebombs, pistols and vehicular attacks.
Israeli police say an attacker has stabbed an Israeli in Jerusalem.
The violent attacks and protests do not appear to be coordinated by any particular group, but instead seem to be the work of individuals. Israeli police said they were aware of the incident.
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The Palestinian security services are continuing close coordination with their Israeli counterparts, say Israeli sources.
