UN peace envoy condemns Palestinian woman’s death by suspected stone-throwing

14 October 2018, 3:04 pm

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The United Nations envoy for Middle East peace condemns the death of a Palestinian woman in a West Bank car accident blamed on stone-throwing by Jewish settlers.

“I condemn this Friday’s attack in the occupied West Bank in which a Palestinian woman, Aisha Al-Rabi, a mother of eight, was killed and her husband injured by stones allegedly thrown by Israeli assailants,” Nickolay Mladenov says in a statement.

Mladenov notes that Israeli authorities have opened an investigation into the incident and calls on them “to ensure that those responsible are swiftly brought to justice.”

He also says “such attacks only seek to drag everyone into a new cycle of violence that would further undermine the prospects of peace between Palestinians and Israelis.”