Blinken urges calm on Mideast trip

By Matthew Lee, Associated Press, Jerusalem

Transcribed from the clipping

“JERUSALEM — Secretary of State Antony Blinken appealed for calm… He arrived days after a Palestinian gunman killed seven people outside a synagogue in an east Jerusalem Jewish settlement and a day after Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians in a raid in Jenin… National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir ordered the demolition of illegally built Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem in response to the attack, which Palestinians denounced as collective punishment…”

Context added by this archive

The Associated Press also calls Neve Yaakov a settlement. The response to the attack, in the same paragraph, is the demolition of other people’s houses.

Cite this item

"Blinken urges calm on Mideast trip," The Oak Ridger, 31 January 2023. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-007. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-007

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Visit to Jerusalem holy site stokes angerLos Angeles Times · 4 January 2023 · the same year
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