Cairo: Egypt's foreign ministry summoned
Israel's charge d'affaires on Wednesday in protest at its
"provocative measures" in east Jerusalem, a day after hundreds
of Palestinians clashed with Israeli police.
Egypt delivered a "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 hospitalised after yesterday'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.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 23:32