CAIRO: Egypt s foreign ministry summoned Israel s charge d affaires on Wednesday in protest at its provocative measures in occupied East Jerusalem, a day after hundreds of Palestinians clashed with Israeli police.
Egypt delivered a clear message to the effect that Israel must immediately stop all provocative and illegal measures that feed the cycle of conflict, the ministry said in a statement.
Sixteen Palestinians were hospitalized after Tuesday s violence in annexed East Jerusalem, where tensions have been high since Israel s announcement last week of plans to build 1,600 new homes for Jewish settlers.
The reopening of a twice-destroyed Hurva synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem s walled Old City on Monday further raised the tensions. -AFP
