{"id":120582,"date":"2017-07-22T19:28:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T19:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=120582"},"modified":"2017-10-26T19:34:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:34:16","slug":"uk-minister-for-the-middle-east-burt-statement-on-recent-violence-in-jerusalem-and-the-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/uk-minister-for-the-middle-east-burt-statement-on-recent-violence-in-jerusalem-and-the-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Minister for the Middle East Burt Statement on Recent Violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\" class=\"direction-ltr\">\n<div class=\"grid-row\">\n<div class=\"column-two-thirds\">\n<div class=\"pub-c-title\n\n  pub-c-title--bottom-margin\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"pub-c-title__context\"><strong>Press release<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>22 July 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/minister-burt-statement-on-recent-violence-in-jerusalem-and-the-west-bank.ar\">Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 <\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"wrapper\" class=\"direction-ltr\">\n<p class=\"pub-c-lead-paragraph\"><strong>Minister for the Middle East, Alistair Burt, calls on all parties to restore\u00a0calm<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"wrapper\" class=\"direction-ltr\">\n<div class=\"grid-row sidebar-with-body\">\n<div class=\"column-two-thirds \">\n<div class=\"govuk-govspeak direction-ltr\">\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Foreign Office Minister, Alistair Burt, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I deplore the violence which took place yesterday in Jerusalem and across the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>I condemn the horrific attack during a Shabbat dinner last night, which led to the death of three Israelis in the settlement of Halamish.<\/p>\n<p>I am deeply concerned by the deaths of three Palestinians and the large numbers injured during clashes yesterday. I urge the relevant authorities to swiftly investigate these incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The increase in tensions at the Haram Al-Sharif \/ Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem is of serious concern. Jerusalem is a sacred place for millions of people in the world. We call upon all parties to restore calm, avoid provocation and through engagement reach a solution that ensures the safety and the security of the site and upholds the status quo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release 22 July 2017 Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 Minister for the Middle East, Alistair Burt, calls on all parties to restore\u00a0calm Foreign Office Minister, Alistair Burt, said: I deplore the violence which took place yesterday in Jerusalem and across the West Bank. I condemn the horrific attack during a Shabbat dinner last night, which led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/uk-minister-for-the-middle-east-burt-statement-on-recent-violence-in-jerusalem-and-the-west-bank\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[2321],"document-category":[2437,1329,1338],"document-source":[4798],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1829,2401,1857,1961,2117],"entity":[1985],"document-language":[6544,6542],"class_list":["post-120582","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-united-kingdom","document-category-arabic-text","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-state","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-holy-places","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-jerusalem","document-subject-terrorism","entity-state","document-language-arabic","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/120582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/120582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=120582"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=120582"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=120582"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=120582"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=120582"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=120582"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=120582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}