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"The government's brutal actions at the Al-aksa Mosque, changing the status quo by placing metal detectors, will necessarily lead to a third Intifada, that already began today," Joint List Member of Parliament Taleb Abu Arar, said Friday afternoon.
“Netanyahu said that in Mecca there are metal detectors. But Mecca is not under occupation, al-Quds [Jerusalem] is,” he said.
“Our Jerusalem is Arabic, Islamic, Palestinian,” he added.
Muslim leaders and Palestinian political factions had urged the faithful to gather for a "day of rage" on Friday against the new security policies, which they see as changing delicate agreements that have governed the holy site for decades.
"Today we are acting to bring the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem back into the embrace of the the Arab World," Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said during his weekly sermon in Gaza. "We shall not enter the Temple Mount through metal detectors."
Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres released a statement on Friday condemning Friday’s stabbing attack in the town of Halamish.
A Palestinian assailant entered a home in Halamish, also known as Neve Tsuf, and stabbed four Israelis, killing three and severely wounding the fourth. The wounded is being treated at Sha'are Tzedek Medical Center.
Palestinian media have identified the attacker as Omar al Abed, age 20, from the West Bank village of Khobar, near Ramallah. He was shot by a neighbor.
The Secretary-General reiterated his call “to refrain from any actions or words that could further escalate an already volatile situation.”
Earlier on Friday, Guterres had expressed concern over violence in the Old City of Jerusalem. Palestinians have rioted every day since Israeli security installed metal detectors at the entrance to the Temple Mount compound earlier this week in response to last week's terror attack.
“The Secretary-General reiterates that the sanctity of religious sites should be respected as places for reflection, not violence,” his spokesman said in a statement.
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, also reacted to Friday’s attack.
"The hateful incitement and glorification of violence by the Palestinian Authority has led to the murder of innocent Israelis, stabbed to death in their home,” he said.
Danon also called on the UN Security Council to “immediately condemn this despicable terror attack”
“The international community must demand that Mahmoud Abbas and the PA put an end to these heinous attacks and stop their ongoing encouragement of violence,” he added.
For several months now Danon has been urging the UN to “take action” against the Palestinian Authority for paying terrorists who kill Israelis.
Back in May, the ambassador sent a letter to the council pointing out that in 2016 alone, the PA had dedicated "almost 130 million dollars of its budget to paying imprisoned terrorists.”
“They spent another 175 million dollars in allowances to the families of so-called martyrs,” he wrote. “Altogether, the PA paid more than 300 million dollars directly in support of terrorist every single year.”
This amount, Danon said, comes up to about seven percent of the Palestinian Authority’s yearly budget, and almost 30 percent of the foreign aid donated by member states of the UN.
“It is absurd to condemn terror, while at the same time paying terrorists,” he said. “It’s time for the UN, the Security Council, and the entire international community, to finally tell Abbas that enough is enough.”
Danon is expected to raise the issue again at a Security Council debate on the Middle East scheduled next week. He will also hold a press briefing on the topic shortly after the meeting, with the participation of Israeli terror victims.
The United Nations says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “deeply deplores” the death of three Palestinians in clashes with Israeli security forces and urges Israeli and Palestinian leaders to refrain from actions that could further escalate the volatile situation in Jerusalem’s Old City.
U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said Guterres also calls on all political, religious and community leaders “to help reduce tension.”
Escalating Israeli-Palestinian tensions over the Holy Land’s most contested shrine boiled over into violence on Friday that killed three Palestinians in street clashes in Jerusalem. Police say a Palestinian attacker also killed three Israelis at a West Bank settlement.
Haq said “the secretary-general reiterates that the sanctity of religious sites should be respected as places for reflection, not violence.”
He said Guterres calls for the killings of the Palestinians “to be fully investigated.”
That was a surprising readUN chief condemns West Bank terror attack
Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned the attack and urged all parties to prevent further escalations.
By Danielle Ziri | July 22, 2017
Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres released a statement on Friday condemning Friday’s stabbing attack in the town of Halamish.
A Palestinian assailant entered a home in Halamish, also known as Neve Tsuf, and stabbed four Israelis, killing three and severely wounding the fourth. The wounded is being treated at Sha'are Tzedek Medical Center.
Palestinian media have identified the attacker as Omar al Abed, age 20, from the West Bank village of Khobar, near Ramallah. He was shot by a neighbor.
The Secretary-General reiterated his call “to refrain from any actions or words that could further escalate an already volatile situation.”
Earlier on Friday, Guterres had expressed concern over violence in the Old City of Jerusalem. Palestinians have rioted every day since Israeli security installed metal detectors at the entrance to the Temple Mount compound earlier this week in response to last week's terror attack.
“The Secretary-General reiterates that the sanctity of religious sites should be respected as places for reflection, not violence,” his spokesman said in a statement.
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, also reacted to Friday’s attack.
"The hateful incitement and glorification of violence by the Palestinian Authority has led to the murder of innocent Israelis, stabbed to death in their home,” he said.
Danon also called on the UN Security Council to “immediately condemn this despicable terror attack”
“The international community must demand that Mahmoud Abbas and the PA put an end to these heinous attacks and stop their ongoing encouragement of violence,” he added.
For several months now Danon has been urging the UN to “take action” against the Palestinian Authority for paying terrorists who kill Israelis.
Back in May, the ambassador sent a letter to the council pointing out that in 2016 alone, the PA had dedicated "almost 130 million dollars of its budget to paying imprisoned terrorists.”
“They spent another 175 million dollars in allowances to the families of so-called martyrs,” he wrote. “Altogether, the PA paid more than 300 million dollars directly in support of terrorist every single year.”
This amount, Danon said, comes up to about seven percent of the Palestinian Authority’s yearly budget, and almost 30 percent of the foreign aid donated by member states of the UN.
“It is absurd to condemn terror, while at the same time paying terrorists,” he said. “It’s time for the UN, the Security Council, and the entire international community, to finally tell Abbas that enough is enough.”
Danon is expected to raise the issue again at a Security Council debate on the Middle East scheduled next week. He will also hold a press briefing on the topic shortly after the meeting, with the participation of Israeli terror victims.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/UN-chief-condemns-West-Bank-terror-attack-500406
That was a surprising read
Lips service by UN. I'm guessing at the Security Council next week they will condemns the settlements as well as the senseless killings of civilians by terrorists, but still wouldn't take any real action to overhaul the status quo.
Things are going full circle, all this is happening today because the UN didn't lift a finger to enforce THEIR original partition plan that the Arabs roundly rejected half a century ago.
I'm of the opinion that since the UN already washed their hands off the situation and watch the Arabs and Israelis settle their disagreement through multiple wars, any empty speeches on the sidelines from them now are utterly useless.
Hope that shit doesnt escalates, but as predicted by a lot of people, the illegal occupation is untenable.
As are the illegal settlements.
Pretty sure the settlements is what makes it illegal.
In '48 there was no reason for Palestinians to accept less than 40% of the land when they were more than 60% of the population.
Our second and worst mistake was in not accepting the United Nations partition plan of 1947. UN resolution 181 provided the legal basis for a Jewish state and an Arab state sharing what used to be British-controlled Mandatory Palestine.
As reported by the BBC, that resolution provided for:
"A Jewish State covering 56.47% of Mandatory Palestine (excluding Jerusalem) with a population of 498,000 Jews and 325,000 Arabs; An Arab State covering 43.53% of Mandatory Palestine (excluding Jerusalem), with 807,000 Arab inhabitants and 10,000 Jewish inhabitants; An international trusteeship regime in Jerusalem, where the population was 100,000 Jews and 105,000 Arabs."
Although the land allocated to the Jewish state was slightly larger than the land allocated to the Arab state, much of the Jewish part was total desert, the Negev and Arava, with the fertile land allocated to the Arabs. The plan was also to the Arabs' advantage for two other reasons:
- The Jewish state had only a bare majority of Jews, which would have given the Arabs almost as much influence as the Jews in running the Jewish state, but the Arab state was almost purely Arab, providing no political advantage to Jews within it.
- Each proposed state consisted of three more-or-less disconnectedpieces, resulting in stronggeographic interdependence between the two states. If the two states were on friendly terms, they would likely have worked in many ways as a single federation. In that federation, Arabs would have had a strong majority.
Instead of accepting that gift of a plan when we still could, we Arabs decided that we could not accept a Jewish state, period. In May 1948, Azzam Pasha, the General Secretary of the Arab League, announced, regarding the proposed new Jewish part of the partition: that, "This will be a war of extermination, a momentous massacre, which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.". We initiated a war intended to eradicate the new state in its infancy, but we lost, and the result of our mistake was a much stronger Jewish state:
Perhaps one should not launch wars if one is not prepared for the results of possibly losing them.
- The Jewish majority of the Jewish state grew dramatically due to the exchange of populations that occurred, with many Arabs fleeing the war in Israel and many Jews fleeing a hostile Arab world to join the new state.
- The Jews acquired additional land during the war we launched, resulting in armistice lines (today called the green lines or pre-1967 lines), which gave Israel a portion of the land previously allocated to the Arab state. The Jewish state also acquired much better contiguity, while the Arab portions became divided into two parts (Gaza and the West Bank) separated by almost 50 kilometers.