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Abbas Fears Israeli-Palestinian Tensions May Turn Into Religious Conflict

© AFP 2023 / PATRICK KOVARIK The renewed violence and tensions between Israel and Palestine amid the Israeli government’s plans to revise the status quo at Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem may change the long-standing conflict into a religious struggle, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday.
The renewed violence and tensions between Israel and Palestine amid the Israeli government’s plans to revise the status quo at Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem may change the long-standing conflict into a religious struggle, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday. - Sputnik International
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The renewed violence and tensions between Israel and Palestine amid the Israeli government’s plans to revise the status quo at Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem may change the long-standing conflict into a religious struggle, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday.

GENEVA (Sputnik) — A wave of violence between the sides erupted in recent weeks, resulting in dozens being killed and injured in stabbings in Jerusalem, the West Bank and across Israel, sparked by alleged plans to allow non-Muslims to pray at Islam’s third holiest site, the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

"The violations committed by settlers and extremists protected by the Israeli occupation forces against our Christian and Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem … this will change the conflict from a political conflict into a religious one, this will have grave consequences on all," Abbas said in his address to the UN Human Rights Council.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a handover ceremony at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, in which the new Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Gadi Eizenkot replaced outgoing Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, February 16, 2015 - Sputnik International
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The Palestinian leader urged the United Nations to provide security and protection to Palestinian citizens as they could no longer tolerate sanctions and attacks carried out by Israeli forces.

Palestine seeks the recognition of its independent state on the territories of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip — lands occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War.

The Israeli government has so far refused to recognize the State of Palestine as an independent diplomatic entity.

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