Palestinian men shot trying to attack Israeli bus

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said repeatedly that there are no such plans, something he reiterated after talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Berlin on Thursday (local time).

Amid continued Israeli provocations in the occupied territories, Jordan, the custodian of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), has warned the Zionist regime against trying to change the status quo of the holy site.

After talking with Netanyahu for four hours, Kerry said he had a few ideas he intends to discuss with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah when they meet Saturday in Amman, Jordan. And I think it’s time that the global community told President Abbas to stop the incitement and hold him accountable for his words and his deeds.

The draft French text would have condemned the violence and called for maintaining the status quo at the Al-Aqsa mosque in east Jerusalem, where clashes last month sparked the latest turmoil. “All of that is false”.

Malki demanded that Israel explain its claim that the “status quo” at the site is unchanged.

At the start of the meeting between Netanyahu and Kerry, the Israeli leader repeated his call for the Palestinian leadership to stop “spreading lies” about Israel.

According to the police, the man apparently tried to try to grab one of the soldiers’ guns and shouted, “I am Daesh!” – the Arabic acronym for the extremist group Islamic State.

One Israeli was killed by soldiers who mistook him for an attacker, and an Eritrean migrant was beaten and shot dead by a crowd of Israelis who thought he had taken part in a shooting.

The Palestinian leader said on the same occasion that Israelis had “no right” to visit the Temple Mount and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Students for Justice in Palestine, a campus group that stands in solidarity with indigenous Palestinians, issued a collective response regarding the message of the vigil, adding that the event failed to acknowledge “systematic state violence and terrorism against the Palestinians by the Israeli government”, alluding to the violence as the “root of destruction” on both sides.

In the past five weeks, 10 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks, mostly stabbings.

“Obviously, this conversation that you and I will have is very important to settle on the steps that will be taken that take us beyond the condemnation and beyond the rhetoric”, Kerry said in remarks before their meeting.

Israel’s military also said 58 Palestinians had been arrested since Wednesday in the West Bank, including 16 Hamas members and those accused of unspecified “hostile activities” by the military.

“For the moment, no age limitations on worshippers’ entry”, a police spokeswoman said in a statement.

“They have no right to desecrate them with their filthy feet”, he said.

Diplomatic efforts are underway to try to bring an end to the violence.

That certainly is the hope of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who spoke through an interpreter alongside Kerry in Berlin today.