UN Security Council to meet Tuesday on Jerusalem unrest

The UN Security Council will meet on Tuesday over violence around a flashpoint Jerusalem holy website that wounded one hundred seventy people on the weekend, diplomatic assets informed AFP.

The assembly, referred to as by means of China, France, the United Arab Emirates, Norway, and Ireland, could be held behind closed doorways and is derived after days of violence in and around Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, sacred to each Muslim and Jews.

The clashes — at a tense time when the Jewish Passover festival coincides with the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan — also follow deadly violence in Israel and the occupied West Bank starting in late March, in which 36 people have been killed.

Jews are allowed to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, but not to pray at the site, the holiest place in Judaism and third-holiest in Islam.

King Abdullah II of Jordan on Sunday called on Israel to “prevent all unlawful and provocative measures” that pressure “in addition aggravation.”

The nation serves as custodian of holy locations in East Jerusalem, which Israel captured in 1967 and later annexed in a pass not recognized by using most of the international community.

Weeks of mounting tensions have seen two recent deadly attacks by means of Palestinians in or close to the Israeli coastal metropolis of Tel Aviv, alongside mass arrests by means of Israeli forces inside the occupied West Bank.