“What we’re seeing here are the seeds of transformation of a national political conflict, into a religious conflict that cannot be solved.” Vox News provides a transcript of FMEP’s journalist briefing with Daniel Seidemann, executive director of Israeli NGO Terrestrial Jerusalem.

“I do not seek to encourage violence, but I am driven to understand and to explain its origins and to call for an adult response to it,” Palestinian psychologist Samah Jabr writes. “The spontaneous reaction of our children to the occupation should be a warning of the need for fundamental political reform in Palestine…a catalyst to organise a truly meaningful project to end the occupation.”

Palestinian and settler killed in separate incidents near Hebron, as Israel arrests top West Bank Hamas official.

“As tension rises in Jerusalem, Israelis stay away and debate how to resolve problems there while ignoring the West Bank and Gaza. It can’t be done,” writes Dahlia Scheindlin.

“Those who choose to launch knife attacks are concentrating on those seen as the most brutal symbols of the occupation: soldiers, police and settlers,” writes Amira Hass.

Acting commissioner Bentzi Sau announces impending wave of arrests for throwing of rocks, firebombs despite claims of decreased violence.

“I am dismayed, as we all should be, when I see young people, children, picking up weapons and seeking to kill,” UN secretary-general said.

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova bashed the draft text of a resolution which seeks to reclassify the Western Wall in Jerusalem —the most sacred public prayer site in Judaism — as a holy Muslim site.

As violence escalates in Israel and the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, advocates for the Jewish state are opening up a new front in their battle to highlight incitement as a prime cause behind Palestinian attacks.