New Zealand to present United Nations measure on Israeli-Palestinian crisis

“We regularly find that children killed [by Israel] during demonstrations often pose no direct, mortal threat to the life of any police officer or soldier at the time they were killed”.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully tells the Security Council he hopes the measure will help “stimulate a level of debate” on the way forward as Israel and the Palestinians sink deeper into violence.

“The events of recent weeks cry out for council action”, says McCully.

He raised the possibility of another draft resolution setting out the parameters of a peace deal early next year.

Israel’s new United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon urged the council to “stop making excuses for the Palestinians” and hold them accountable for the current wave of violence.

Netanyahu reiterated his claim that Palestinian incitement – not Israeli policies – are at the root of the current violence.

Israeli Ambassador Roet: “Israel is firmly committed to the status quo which protects the right of Muslims to pray in the mosque.”

Diplomats said they did not expect the text to be a game-changer, but the initiative underscored the need for the Security Council to take a more active role.

Fact: Israeli leaders have long and recklessly cultivated a culture of hate against Palestinians that’s manifested in the constant and excessive use of violence by the IOF and terrorist settlers.

He said the global community must understand Israeli fears about personal safety and concerns about what they believe are growing attempts at “delegitimization” of the country. Another Palestinian involved in the attack was arrested, she said.

Israel is in the grip of violence once again, with the past month seeing a string of Palestinian gun and knife attacks. Israel says the violence is the result of Palestinian incitement. As Herzallah was picking olives in his family’s orchard, several Israelis from the nearby Mevo Dotan settlement caught and beat the boy, according to local media.

The deaths on Tuesday brought the total of Palestinians killed this month to 47 as of yesterday, PCHR said.

Netanyahu said his talks with Kerry will focus on ways to “calm the situation”.

Ban said he haqd been urging both sides to “tell their people correctly that there should be no killings”.

Mogherini says she’ll also meet the Jordanian foreign minister in Vienna and plans to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Brussels “in the coming days”.

Mogherini spoke Thursday ahead of a meeting in Berlin with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

But he expected no concrete action to emerge from a Security Council ministerial meeting on the Middle East planned for Thursday, though he added “we continue to live and hope”.

Since October 1, Israeli army and police have killed at least 52 Palestinians – among them alleged attackers, unarmed protesters and bystanders – while a series of Palestinian attacks have left eight Israelis dead. The Palestinians say the violence is rooted in decades of occupation and tensions around a sensitive Jerusalem religious site.

Netanyahu sparked an uproar this week by suggesting that a World War II-era Palestinian leader persuaded the Nazis to adopt their Final Solution to exterminate 6 million Jews.

“When the two children heading towards the gate were only two meters away from the soldier”, the report says, “other Israeli soldiers fortified in a military watchtower in the area opened fire at the children and killed them immediately”.

An Israeli soldier was stabbed and slightly wounded in clashes with Palestinian youths near Hebron overnight. Two others were wounded. Kerry then heads to the region for talks with the Palestinians and Jordan. The driver of the Palestinian vehicle was also injured but it was not clear if he was shot or hurt in the crash, it said.

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri says the Palestinian died at a hospital shortly after Thursday’s incident.