UN Security Council alarmed by Jerusalem clashes

The UN Security Council is concerned with clashes in Jerusalem and the West Bank. On March 5^th, 18 Israeli policemen and 17 Palestinians were injured in clashes on the Temple Mount, or Al-Aqsa mosque. At the Jerusalem shrine hundreds of Muslim worshippers emerging from prayers threw stones at policemen and Jews praying below at the Jewish shrine known as the Western Wall. Friday's events were sparked, in part, by rising anger over Israel's decision to add two West Bank shrines to its list of national heritage sites.

"The Council's members urged all sides to show restraint and avoid provocative acts and looked forward to an early resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations," said the UN ambassador Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet, president of the Security Council for March.