UN’s Ban: ‘Frustration’ is to blame for Palestinian violence against Israelis

The UN Security Council stood by the Palestinians in the wake of the new Israeli appalling projects which may further complicate peace efforts trying to ease tensions.

Most of the Palestinians killed had been attackers, Israel said, while others had been shot dead by Israeli forces during protests and clashes.

Israel’s military said two pipe bombs were also found in the area and were being defused.

“The comments of the U.N. Secretary-General encourage terror”, Netanyahu said in a statement.

Ban called for a freeze of “provocative” settlement activities by Israel.

He added this month alone, the Israeli authorities continued to demolish housing structures belonging to Palestinian Bedouins in the Occupied East Jerusalem, rendering over 40 Palestinians homeless, half of them children.

The foreign minister also took the time to address the Colombian peace talks still underway in Havana, Cuba between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC rebels and the Colombian government, after the Security Council approved a deal to monitor the peace process. “They want to murder Jews wherever they are, and they say it out loud”.

The criticism, particularly about the settlements, where some 550,000 Jews live in around 250 communities scattered across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, has raised Palestinian hopes that world powers might finally be minded to support a United Nations resolution condemning Israel’s policy outright.

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon made the latest accusations at a UN Security Council meeting and his plea was simple: Israel and Palestine must try harder to achieve lasting peace.

The United States, United Nations and the European Union oppose all Israeli settlement building, and consider it an obstacle to peace.

Ban Ki-moon says Israeli settlements harm the approach to resolving the conflict.

Last week, Israel declared 370 acres in the West Bank, south of Jericho, as state land.

An Israeli woman died on Tuesday of wounds she suffered in a Palestinian stabbing attack in a West Bank settlement the previous day, according to a Jerusalem hospital.

In a report it said was based on government data obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request, the group said the housing ministry was seeking to build 55,548 units in the West Bank – including two new settlements – of which more than 8,300 homes would be in E1.

He said frustration was growing among Palestinians.

The incident pointed to an emerging pattern of attacks inside West Bank settlements and prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to order preparation of what a spokesman said would be a “comprehensive and detailed plan” to protect them.