“Some of these people were stabbed, shot, and even beaten to death by members of the public, both Israeli and Palestinian”.
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Abbas also attacked the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, for his controversial remarks accusing the Palestinian leader Haj Amin al-Husseini for urging Adolf Hitler to exterminate the Jews.
The speech came amid new violence between Palestinians and Israelis.
Israeli safety forces shot dead one of many assailants and captured the opposite, police stated.
At a Jerusalem news conference, Abdel Azeem Salhab, chairman of the Waqf council, accused Israel of trying to “Judaize” the mosque.
A wave of anger has gripped the city of Hebron where hundreds demonstrated on Tuesday night to demand the return of “the bodies of martyrs” – youths behind a wave of unrest that has seen nine Israelis killed in knife attacks and shootings.
Fresh violence between Palestinians and Israelis erupted in September following disputes over the al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem.
Palestinians who live in East Jerusalem and have residency permits are able to go back and forth between the West Bank and Israel, and also receive national insurance and pension benefits.
As residents, they enjoy freedom of movement, the right to work in Israel and access to Israeli social services and health care.
Israel’s West Bank separation barrier, built a decade ago, slices through Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem, leaving about 100,000 city residents on the “West Bank” side of the barrier.
In a press release, the rights group stated it had documented at the very least 4 instances through which Palestinians had been intentionally shot dead with out posing an imminent menace, “in what seem to have been extrajudicial executions”.
The situation has significantly deteriorated since settlers’ arson attack against the Dawabsheh family home in the Nablus village of Duma, which claimed the life of 18-month old Ali Dawabsheh. Israeli police often do not venture into these areas, and Israeli utilities offer only limited services.
“There is no dispute between Jordanians and Palestinians over any issue”.
“Isn’t it high time for the worldwide community to move from merely talking about the justice of the Palestinian cause to taking practical measures and procedures that would serve justice to my Palestinian people?” he said.
In recent days the violence has mainly struck in the West Bank. An Israeli woman was stabbed and wounded in an attack in Gush Etzion, while a Palestinian in Hevron attempted a knife attack on an Israeli soldier before being shot dead.
These reported attempts by Israel to forcefully change the “status quo” have fuelled violence between Palestine and Israel. Israel adamantly denies such allegations, saying they amount to incitement to violence.
At the weekend Israel and Jordan – the holy site’s custodian – agreed to allow surveillance cameras at Al-Aqsa, but this has hit trouble as the two locked horns over the installation.
The Palestinians say the Tel Aviv regime seeks to change the status quo of the compound.
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The official, however, said there was no discussion of the matter at the forum and Mr Netanyahu did not ask that it be included on the agenda of a future meeting.
