US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday communicated “serious concerns” to his Israeli partner about fierce conflicts in Jerusalem started by arranged removals of Palestinians from East Jerusalem, the White House said in an statement.
Sullivan in a call with Israeli National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat “urged the Israeli government to seek after fitting measures to guarantee peace during Jerusalem Day recognitions.”
New encounters broke out among Palestinians and Israeli police in pieces of East Jerusalem on Sunday, remembering for Sheik Jarrah and outside the walled Old City, just as in Haifa, a blended Arab-Jewish city in northern Israel at the peak of the Muslim sacred month of Ramazan.
The conflicts have been started by the arranged expulsions of a few Palestinian families from the Sheik Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, a region caught by Israel in a 1967 conflict.
Israel’s principal legal officer got a suspension on Sunday of an Israeli Supreme Court hearing on the expulsions, a meeting that had taken steps to stir up more brutality in the blessed city and uplift worldwide concern.
“Mr. Sullivan additionally repeated the United States’ serious concerns about the expected expulsions of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheik Jarrah area,” the White House statement said.
Sullivan and Ben-Shabbat “concurred that the starting of rocket assaults and combustible inflatables from Gaza towards Israel is unsuitable and should be denounced,” the White House added.
It said Sullivan likewise communicated the Biden organization’s obligation to Israel’s security and to supporting harmony and soundness all through the Middle East and would remain completely occupied with the days ahead to advance quiet in Jerusalem.
