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Palestinians urge UN Security Council to discuss Jerusalem tension
Published in Albawaba on 15 - 09 - 2015

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) called Tuesday on the United Nations Security Council to hold an emergency session to discuss the growing tension in East Jerusalem and at al-Aqsa Mosque.
"The PLO rejects all the criminal and terrorist schemes which target the Islamic and Christian holy sites and shrines in Jerusalem," the PLO executive committee said in a statement following its meeting held in the West Bank city of Ramallah under Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
It also said "these schemes will never pass under any circumstances," adding that the international community is demanded to oblige the Israeli government to stop all these criminal and dangerous plots that only bring violence, chaos and blood.
The PLO accused Israel of using the current situation in the region, mainly the Arab and Muslim involvement in internal troubles, mainly in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen, to divide al-Aqsa Mosque.
Meanwhile, the PLO called for forming a larger Palestinian unity government immediately to end the current internal Palestinian split, which has been going on since 2007, to protect al-Aqsa Mosque and confront the Israeli schemes.
President Abbas, meanwhile, discussed the situation in Jerusalem in a phone call with King Abdullah of Jordan, according to a statement of the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.
The statement said that the two leaders discussed the current Israeli measures and escalation against al-Aqsa Mosque, the first shrine and the third mosque for Muslims all over the world.
Meanwhile, Wafa reported that President Abbas spoke on phone with Hamas chief Khaled Meshal and discussed with him the current situation in Jerusalem and the Israeli measures against the holy mosque.
Tension in the area of the mosque of al-Aqsa Mosque and inside has been mounting for the third successive day, where medical sources said that at least 30 Palestinian demonstrators were injured in the clashes with Israeli police.


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