Tehran 7 February _US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner has blamed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for a spike in violence by Israel against Palestinians following the unveiling of a new US peace plan in the Middle East.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_On January 28, Trump announced the so-called deal of the century -- a brainchild of Kushner and other key pro-Israeli figures -- but withheld the details.
Palestinian leaders, who severed all ties with Washington in late 2017 after Trump controversially recognized Jerusalem al-Quds as the capital of the Israeli regime, have rejected the controversial plan.
Kushner said Thursday that Abbas "does have a responsiblity" for the escalation of unrest and violence after the unveiling of the plan.
"He calls for days of rage in response and he said that even before he saw the plan," Kushner told reporters after briefing UN Security Council members behind closed doors in New York.
"He rejected the plan before he even saw it, Kushner continued.
Palestinian Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh, in a statement carried by Palestine’s official Wafa news agency, blamed Trump’s plan for the violence, arguing that it has “created this atmosphere of escalation and tension by trying to impose fake facts on the ground, which we have repeatedly warned against.”
Abu Rudeineh then warned against the Israeli regime’s systematic Israeli acts of aggression, emphasizing that “the Palestinian people and their leadership will stand strong against all these conspiracies, and they will foil them just as they did in the past.”
The statement came after Israeli military forces fatally shot a young Palestinian man on allegations of opening fire at a group of soldiers, who were stationed near the Parsa Junction outside the Dolev settlement, northwest of Ramallah, on Thursday afternoon.
The Israeli military said the soldier was slightly injured from the gunfire, and was taken to hospital for treatment.
Earlier, a Palestinian Authority police officer, identified as 25-year-old Staff Sergeant Tareq Badwan, succumbed to his wounds after he was shot by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
Video footage shared by Palestinians on social media apparently shows the moment Badwan was hit by Israeli fire. The officer was seemingly standing in uniform inside a police station in Jenin at the time, and did not appear to be a threat to the Israeli soldiers operating in the city.
Badwan was the second Palestinian security officer killed in Jenin overnight.
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