Palestinians blame US plan for violence
JERUSALEM: The Palestinians on Friday rejected US allegations of incitement after a day of clashes and attacks left three Palestinians dead and more than a dozen Israelis wounded.
Late on Friday, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian during clashes in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinians linked the ongoing violence to US President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan, which favours Israel on the contentious issues of the conflict.
“Those who introduce plans for annexation and apartheid and the legalisation of occupation and settlements are the ones who bear responsibility for deepening the cycle of violence,” senior Palestinian
official Saeb Erekat said.
He was responding to remarks delivered the day before by Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and the architect of the Mideast blueprint, who had blamed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the latest violence.
RUSSIA: ISRAEL NEARLY SHOT DOWN PLANE
MOSCOW:Russia’s defence ministry said on Friday that Israeli air forces nearly shot down a passenger jetliner in Syria during a missile strike on the suburbs of Damascus a day earlier.
The allegation comes as tensions run high in Syria, where fighting has escalated in the northern province of Idlib. Syrian forces have clashed with Turkish troops that support the opposition there.