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Thursday 17 Dec 2015 - 13:54 Makkah mean time-6-3-1437
UN chief Ban Ki-moon (Google image)
New York (IINA) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a message delivered on his behalf to a conference on the “Rights of the Palestinian people” that the recent attacks by Palestinians against Israelis are “bred from nearly five decades of Israeli occupation”, WAFA reported.
“It is the result of fear, humiliation, frustration and mistrust,” said Ban in his message to the conference on Tuesday.
“It has been fed by the wounds of decades of bloody conflict, which will take a long time to heal. Palestinian youth in particular are tired of broken promises and they see no light at the end of the tunnel,” he added.
The UN chief also blamed Israeli settlement activities in the occupied territories for the deterioration of the situation in the region.
He said that despite several reaffirmations by the Israeli government that it does not intend to change the status quo at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, “any action which could be interpreted as attempting to change the delicate balance, and particularly the status quo of the holy sites, carries with it the risk of conflict.”
Ban stressed the “urgent need for leaders to rein in incitement” and called on Israeli security forces to “ensure a calibrated use of force in response to incidents.”
During the conference, Shawan Jabarin, director-general of Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, accused Israel of conducting ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Jerusalem.
The conference on the Question of Jerusalem was held by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), in coordination with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Indonesian Government in Jakarta.
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