Jordan king warns Israel against changing Aqsa status quo

After meeting in Berlin, the two condemned the attacks and Kerry called for an end to all incitement and violence, the Associated Press reported. For Muslims, it is the Noble Sanctuary, home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam and a national symbol for the Palestinians.

Kerry plans to discuss the proposals with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Saturday.

It has been six years since the council adopted a resolution on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, McCully said, and “this council must take responsibility for the failure of the diplomatic and political process, and move to resolve it”.

Mr Netanyahu has repeatedly accused Mr Abbas of incitement by suggesting Israel wants to change the status quo at the compound.

Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, head of the Islamic Waqf which administers Al-Aqsa, said around 25,000 Muslims attended Friday prayers after age restrictions were lifted for the first time since mid-September, when clashes broke out at the site between Palestinians and Israeli police. “All of that is false”.

Following his meetings in Berlin, Kerry will head to Amman, Jordan, to meet with King Abdullah and Abbas.

Kerry added that these conversations would be “very important to settle on the steps that can be taken beyond the condemnation and beyond the rhetoric” to end the violence.

She does believe Abbas and the official Palestinian media are encouraging violence, but no one is listening to them.

Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida said UNESCO slammed Israel’s failure to protect Jerusalem’s archeological sites.

Earlier Friday, a Palestinian stabbed a soldier in the West Bank and was shot by troops, Israel’s military said.

US State Secretary John Kerry is now talking of somehow enhancing and actually writing down the rules of the “status quo” on the mount.

Those fears have also been fueled by a rise in visits to the shrine by Jewish activists demanding prayer rights, including senior members of Netanyahu’s coalition government.

Representatives of the Middle East Peace Quartet, which comprises diplomats from the United Nations, the European Union, the U.S. and Russian Federation, are to meet over the situation in Vienna on Friday, Ms Mogherini said. In the past five weeks, 10 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, mostly stabbings, while 49 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, including 28 said by Israel to be attackers and the rest in clashes.

Mr Netanyahu said Israel had not changed the status quo and had no intention of doing so. Eight Israelis have been killed in attacks. Rosenfeld said the attackers, from a West Bank village, were seriously wounded, and the Israeli man was lightly wounded. He urged both sides to pull back from the brink of what he says could erupt into a full-blown Palestinian uprising.

An Israeli soldier shot and killed a Jewish man he suspected was a Palestinian “terrorist” in Jerusalem, police said Thursday, in a reflection of the jittery mood that has gripped Israelis amid a spate of near-daily Palestinian stabbing attacks. Over the weekend, he’ll talk with the Palestinian Authority President.