The European Union on Saturday condemned lethal assaults in Israel and a barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon that triggered Israeli strikes and known as for “restraint”.
“The EU expresses its total condemnation of these acts of violence. This must cease,” the bloc’s international coverage chief Josep Borrell stated in an announcement after Friday’s assaults in Israel.
Two British-Israeli sisters aged 16 and 20 have been killed and their mom significantly wounded in a taking pictures assault within the occupied West Bank, whereas an Italian vacationer was killed and 7 others wounded in Tel Aviv when a automotive rammed into folks strolling on a biking path.
Borrell additionally condemned the “indiscriminate” rocket hearth from the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
There has been an escalation of violence since Israeli police clashed with Palestinians on Wednesday inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, with Israel bombarding each Gaza and Lebanon following the rocket hearth by Palestinian militants.
“We urge all parties to exercise maximum restraint, to avoid further escalation and promote calm for the ongoing religious holidays,” Borrell stated.
“Israel has the right to defend itself. At the same time, any response must be proportionate.”
The newest flare-up in tensions comes throughout what’s each the Jewish Passover and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Borrell added the “status quo of all the holy sites must be preserved”. —Agence France-Presse
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