Israeli man, 20, killed in West Bank stabbing attack

The Palestinians and the European Union have been clamoring for permits to build industrial, residential and commercial projects in Area C for months and even years.

“You can raise a Palestinian flag here in the United Nations, but as long as the Palestinians fail to raise a generation committed to peace and reconciliation, there will be no end to violence”, Danon said.

“He (Kerry) showed understanding for Israel’s right to self-defense while ignoring the Palestinians’ right to defend themselves against Israel’s state terrorism and summary executions”, Aiatah told the Palestinian Khabar news agency. Other officials, including Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, and Interior Minister Silvan Shalom, the minister in charge of negotiations with the Palestinians, participated in various parts of the meeting.

The army said it was the 20th rocket fired from the territory, which is controlled by Hamas, since the start of the year.

“There can be no peace when we have an onslaught of terror, not here or not anywhere else in the world”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Kerry in Jerusalem ahead of their meeting, which took place in the aftermath of two fatal attacks this week.

“Today I express my complete condemnation for any act of terror that takes innocent lives”.

“We can not separate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from this global threat”, he said.

Drawing a parallel between attacks on Israelis and those elsewhere as the “same assault by militant Islamists and the forces of terror”, Netanyahu urged the global community to support Israel’s efforts against militants. “It’s a battle of civilization against barbarism”. “It was lengthy and all issues presented by the Palestinian side in NY and Amman with Kerry were discussed during this meeting in depth”.

“There’s no agreement to be reached between the parties right now”, one senior United States official said.

The attack was the first in Jerusalem in almost two weeks after the majority of attacks targeting Israelis had shifted to the southern West Bank, where the army yesterday barred Palestinians from entering a large bloc of Jewish settlements.

He was quoted as saying that [Israel’s] continued settlement construction and field executions affirm Israel’s persistent arrogance.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to travel to the region this week in an attempt to quell the violence. Eighty-six Palestinians have been killed in the spate of violence since October 1, some while carrying out attacks and others in clashes with Israeli forces.

A Palestinian man has stabbed an Israeli soldier to death in the West Bank, before being shot dead.

“This has only further entrenched the occupation and undermined the realization of the two-State solution”, Abbas said.

But many doubt John Kerry’s presence will be of much influence after the White House recently admitted that president Obama does not expect to broker an Israeli/Palestinian peace deal before he leaves office. About 60,000 Palestinians from the West Bank are permitted to work in Israel.

“We’re not changing the decades-old USA policy regarding settlements”, he said, noting that every administration since 1967 has opposed them because they are an obstacle to a two-state solution.

Three Palestinians – including a teenage girl – and an Israeli soldier died on Monday in the latest violence.

The factions said Kerry’s statements were proof of “US support for Israeli terrorism”.

The attacks renewed Tuesday as Kerry landed in Israel.

Kerry later met for two hours with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah.