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Monday 05 Oct 2015 - 16:02 Makkah mean time-22-12-1436
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Jerusalem, (IINA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called on the international community to protect Palestinians from escalated violence committed by Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Anadolu Agency reported.
During a phone call, the Palestinian President urged the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to act before tensions in the Israeli-occupied West Bank escalate further.
Abbas reportedly told Ban that Palestinians need protection from “provocations by Jewish settlers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the blocking of roads and raids on Palestinian villages by settlers, all of which being done under Israeli army protection”.
Due to a series of recent Jewish holidays, Israel has restricted Palestinians from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, while allowing groups of extremist Jews to enter the site despite a longstanding ban on non-Muslim prayer in the Al-Aqsa compound.
Recent incursions into the site by Jewish extremists, under the protection of Israeli forces, have led to numerous clashes with Palestinian Muslim worshipers.
Several clashes erupted in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where Jewish settlers went on an anti-Palestinian rampage, during which they attacked Palestinians and Palestinian property.
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