Abbas calls on United Nations for ‘special regime’ to protect Palestinians

Citing comments at a security cabinet meeting held two weeks ago, the government official said Mr Netanyahu mentioned the possibility of revoking a few rights for Palestinians who live within Jerusalem’s municipal borders but outside the barrier Israel built during a Palestinian suicide bombing campaign a decade ago. “He prefers to blame Palestinians for everything – even the Holocaust”, Abbas said. “You all know that this is false, untrue and baseless”.

In Geneva on Wednesday, the High Commissioner met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Human Rights Council, which is based in Switzerland.

Amnesty worldwide said on Thursday that it has found a few of the killings of Palestinians have been unjustified and that Israeli forces were using “extreme and unlawful measures”.

The Jerusalem area has been, in the past month, the scene of escalating violence between Palestinians and Jewish Israelis.

Hundreds of angry Palestinians demonstrated Tuesday night in Hebron to demand the return of “the bodies of martyrs” – youths behind the wave of unrest that has seen nine Israelis killed in knife attacks and shootings.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that the escalation in violence between Israel and the Palestinians offers a glimpse into a reality of one state for two peoples. Every day young Palestinian men, allegedly caught hurling stones at the other side, are being shot dead by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

“For Palestinians, increasing Jewish interest in and presence on the [Al-Aqsa] esplanade portends the too familiar”, read a June report released by the worldwide Crisis Group, which specialises in political analysis. He did not elaborate. More than 2,000 Palestinians have also been injured in clashes with Israeli forces, leading the Red Crescent to declare an emergency. Unlike their brethren in the occupied West Bank, Palestinians in East Jerusalem receive Israeli social benefits and can move freely in Israel.

Mogherini, who has met with both Abbas and Netanyahu these last days, said she hopes to bring the Mideast Quartet (US, EU, United Nations and Russia) representatives to the region to establish trust-building steps.

Dan Shapiro, US ambassador to Israel, called information on Lakin’s death “devastating news”.

“The Human Rights Council is being used as a stage for propaganda”, Manor said, according to a transcription of his remarks to the diplomats in a closed-door hearing.

“What we have witnessed today is the glorification of terror and violence”, Manor told diplomats in a meeting convened hours after Abbas spoke.

“Each drop of blood that was spilled in Jerusalem is pure blood as long as it’s for the sake of Allah”.

Following Israeli police blocking of surveillance cameras installation inside the mosque compound by the Islamic Waqf, the Jordanian Minister of Waqf and Islamic Affairs Hayel Abdulhafez was reported in al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida as criticizing the |Israeli interference, stating that Israel has nothing to do with this.