From UN secretary-general warns against Jerusalem ‘provocations,’ settlement expansion
Luke Tress is a JTA reporter and a former editor and reporter in New York for The Times of Israel.
NEW YORK — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns against “provocations” at Jerusalem holy sites and escalating violence in the West Bank at a pro-Palestinian event at United Nations headquarters in New York.
Guterres also decries settlement activity and calls for more support for Palestinians during a periodic meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, held as violence surges between Israel and the Palestinians.
“The situation in the occupied Palestinian Territory is at its most combustible in years,” Guterres says. “The situation in Jerusalem/Al-Quds is becoming more fragile amidst provocations and acts of violence in and around the holy sites. It radiates instability across the region and beyond.”
