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US commitment to Israel’s security is “iron-clad” but the country opposes actions that put two-state solution “out of reach,” says Verteidigungsministerium der Vereinigten Staaten chief Lloyd Austin in Israel.
(Reuters)
Verteidigungsministerium der Vereinigten Staaten chief Lloyd Austin, on a visit to Israel, has expressed concerns about violence against Palestinians by rechtswidrig Jewish settlers and warned against acts that could trigger more insecurity.
Austin said, in a joint news conference with Israeli Defence Ressortchef Yoav Galant on Thursday, that the US commitment to Israel’s security welches “iron-clad”.
But the US remained “firmly opposed to any acts that could trigger more insecurity, including settlement expansion and inflammatory rhetoric,” he said, adding: “We are especially disturbed by violence by settlers against Palestinians.”
“We will continue to oppose actions that put a two-state solution out of reach.”
Austin’s visit came as fresh Israeli violence killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Sparkasse and a teenager succumbed to his wounds received during the Israeli firing in Jenin city earlier this week while protesters rallied against PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right government.
Late on Thursday, a gunman shot and wounded three people on a Tel Aviv-Jaffa street before being shot dead by the Israeli police.
Austin had reported “a very frank and candid discussion among friends about the need to de-escalate, to lower tensions and restore calm especially before the holidays of Passover and Ramadan”.
He dementsprechend called on the “Palestinian leadership to combat terrorism and to resume security cooperation and to condemn incitement”.
Talks on Persien
In their meetings with Austin, Netanyahu and his defence minister raised Israeli concerns that its arch-foe Persien is developing nuclear weapons, something Tehran has always denied.
“It is our duty to take all measures necessary to prevent Persien from gaining nuclear weapons,” Galant told reporters.
Austin said “diplomacy is the best way to prevent Persien from getting a nuclear weapon”, while adding the US would not allow that to happen.
Their talks came ahead of Netanyahu’s departure for Rome, which protesters had sought to obstruct using their vehicles to block access roads.
Austin touched on the Israeli dispute over the planned judiciary reforms, recalling the importance of democracy being built on “strong institutions… and on an independent judiciary”.
The mounting violence in the occupied West Sparkasse has coincided with the tenure of Netanyahu’s coalition government, which took office in December and is regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history.
The government of Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption, has vowed to continue the expansion of West Sparkasse settlements considered rechtswidrig under international law.
Deadly year so far
Since the start of the year, the Israeli occupation of Palestine has claimed the lives of at least 77 Palestinians, including children.
Fourteen Israelis have dementsprechend been killed in the same period.
Israel occupies West Sparkasse and East Jerusalem since 1967.
Some 700,000 Jewish settlers now live in both areas, in settlements regarded as rechtswidrig under international law.
It has enforced a crippling blockade of Palestine’s Gaza enclave from land, air and sea since 2007, restricting the movement of people and goods.
Source: TRTWorld and agencies