French govt. urges end to tensions in occupied territories
France has denounced the recent escalation in tensions between Israelis and Palestinians as “extremely worrying and dangerous,” calling for an end to the violence in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The office of French President Francois Hollande said in a statement released on Sunday that “everything must be done to calm the situation and end this cycle (of violence) which has already caused too many victims.”
Paris also called for the resumption of “political efforts” to end the tensions, adding that the French government will not “spare any effort in working towards this.”
There has been growing confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians over the past weeks.
The tensions were triggered by the Tel Aviv’s imposition on August 26 of sweeping restrictions on entries into the compound of the al-Aqsa Mosque in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) and Israeli settlers’ repeated storming of the mosque.
In their latest acts of violence, a pregnant Palestinian woman and her child were killed as Israeli warplanes carried out multiple strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip early on Sunday.
According to reports, one of the airstrikes, in which three others were also injured, resulted in the collapse of a home in northern Gaza. The child, a three-year-old girl, was also killed along with her mother, 30-year-old Noor Hassan, and her to-be-born sibling.
On Saturday, local medics with Gaza’s emergency medical services said two Palestinian teenagers were shot dead by Israeli forces during anti-Israel protests and clashes east of the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
Similar clashes on October 9 killed seven Palestinian protesters and wounded 145 more in the bloodiest clashes in the Israeli-blockaded territory since the war of summer 2014.
According to the Palestinian Authority Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs, Israeli military forces have nabbed at least 650 Palestinians since the beginning of October.
International condemnations have poured in over Israel’s violent crackdown on the Palestinians, with some observers warning that Tel Aviv’s provocations could open the door to a new Intifida, or a Palestinian uprising, against the regime.
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