An Israeli border guards holds a camouflaged weapon during clashes with Palestinian youths in the West Bank town of Al-Bireh on October 27, 2015.
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said the latest flare-up in violence in the six-decade-old conflict was “dangerous in the extreme”.
The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, used an appearance at the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday to appeal for United Nations intervention to defuse the recent wave of violence between Palestinians and Israelis.
The death is the fourth from those attacks, making October 13 the deadliest day for Israelis in five weeks of violence that erupted over tensions surrounding a Jerusalem holy site.
He did not condemn the stabbings or mention that many of those killed were shot while carrying out stabbing attacks. An Israeli Arab attacker was also killed.
Meanwhile, an Israeli woman was reportedly attacked and injured by a knife-wielding Palestinian outside a supermarket in the Gush Etzion bloc of Jewish settlements further north. The Palestinian was arrested later. “We need you”, he said, warning that allowing the current situation to continue would “kill the last shred of hope for the two-state-solution-based peace”.
His son Micah Avni Lakin said he had been a big fan of social media, where young Palestinians have incited attacks, uploading videos and sharing the hashtag #Jerusalemintifada.
The move infuriates Muslims who have strict religious rules on how burials should take place.
Israeli and Jordanian officials said Tuesday that new surveillance cameras should be installed within days at the walled Jerusalem shrine at the epicenter of Israeli-Palestinian violence, with the goal of streaming the footage live on the Internet for maximum transparency. Palestinians have accused Israel of using excessive force, claiming that alleged assailants were either unarmed or could have been stopped without being killed.
In 2007, Salah urged “all Muslims and Arabs (to) start an intifada (uprising) to support holy Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa mosque”.
Ghattas posted photos and a video appearing to show him on Wednesday in and around the mosque complex, which is the third-holiest site in Islam and the most sacred for Jews, who refer to it as the Temple Mount.
Netanyahu’s allegations manipulated the sentiments of Jews about “the most horrendous crime known in modern history committed by the Nazis”, he said. Now Jews are allowed to visit the compound, but can not pray there.
However, the number of Jewish visitors has doubled in the past five years, accompanied by statements from Jewish groups and several leading Israeli politicians demanding prayers at the site.
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An Arab-Israeli lawmaker visited the Temple Mount, violating a directive issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
