domingo, 23 de julio de 2017

State Dept: Israeli Settlements, Lack Of Hope Drive Palestinian Violence

State Dept: Israeli Settlements, Lack Of Hope Drive Palestinian Violence

 Continued drivers of violence, resistance, and retaliation include a
lack of hope in achieving Palestinian statehood, Israeli settlement
construction in the West Bank, and settler violence against Palestinians
in the West Bank.

 Israeli police place a Palestinian boy in a chokehold in Jerusalem's Old City, July 17, 2017. Muslims boycotted the Jerusalem holy site in a gesture of protest after Israel denied access to Muslims to Islam's second holiest site. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Israeli police place a Palestinian boy in a chokehold in Jerusalem’s Old
City, July 17, 2017. Muslims boycotted the Jerusalem holy site in a
gesture of protest after Israel denied them access to Islam’s second
holiest site, setting up heavy police and military blockades.
(AP/Mahmoud Illean)