UN chief wants review of excessive use of force by Israeli security forces

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Wednesday 14 Oct 2015 - 11:46 Makkah mean time-1-1-1437 Pic: AFP New York (IINA) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged Israeli authorities to conduct a “serious review” on whether its security forces are resorting to excessive force in clashes with Palestinians, news agencies reported Ban finds “the apparent excessive use of force by Israeli security forces” to be “troubling,” his spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters as violence continued in Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Bethlehem. This “demands serious review as it only serves to exacerbate the situation leading to a vicious cycle of needless bloodshed,” he said. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said Tuesday Israel would use “all means” available to end Palestinian violence and that new security measures were planned. Clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian youth erupted in September, following provocative tours and storming of Al-Aqsa by Jewish settlers in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. Since October 1, when two Israelis were killed in a ‘lone wolf’ attack by a Palestinian in Jerusalem, 26 Palestinians have been killed, including a pregnant woman and her two-year old child killed in an Israeli bombing on Sunday morning. Over 1200 Palestinians have been injured, many of them hit by live ammunition fired by Israeli troops at Palestinian demonstrators armed only with stones. AB/IINA