The surviving injured youth was identified by the Palestinian Ministry of Health as Fares Khadr al-Rishq from the al-Barid neighborhood in al-Ram.
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The United Nations and most countries regard the Israeli settlements as illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.
“This law is strictly symbolic and political”, he said.
Turning to the leaders of Israel and Palestine, the Secretary-General stressed that their failures to advance peace has created a vacuum, with extremist voices filling that space.
Stressing that the global community, including through the recommendations outlined in the Quartet report, remains resolute in its commitment to support the goal of a peaceful future for both Palestinians and Israelis, the Secretary-General concluded his remarks by encouraging the Security Council to support the efforts of the Quartet to work with the parties, the region and interested stakeholders in advancing peace.
The EU diplomats “firmly condemn” all attacks on civilians, Israeli and Palestinian. European officials say it supports groups that promote democracy or help the Palestinians to develop their economy and governing institutions as a step toward establishing an independent state at peace with Israel.
A wave of violence that began in October previous year has killed at least 214 Palestinians, 34 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese.
“Our party is proud to stand with Israel now and always”, the platform concludes.
These have not been adopted.
While it dropped a provision that would force NGO representatives to wear special badges in parliament, the new law targets human rights groups such as B’Tselem that provide critical reporting on Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.
Reviewing the violence up to the end of 2015, the diplomats were “deeply concerned by incidents involving apparent excessive force” by Israeli security forces – “possibly amounting in certain cases to unlawful killings” – in response to “protests and security incidents”.
A group of Israelis and Americans have sued Facebook Inc. for $1 billion in damages, claiming that the social media site allowed the Palestinian group Hamas to use the platform to plot attacks that killed four Americans and wounded one in Israel, the West Bank and Jerusalem between 2014 and 2016.
Mladenov, a former Bulgarian foreign minister who was previously head of the United Nations mission in Iraq, said such ideas were a distraction that would harm Israelis and Palestinians.
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Semmons told The Jewish Press that he believes the full Platform Committee of the GOP will adopt the strong support of Israel and her citizens and said that the platform “truly reflects Republican opinion about America’s greatest ally”.
