By Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is alarmed that Israelis and Palestinians are engaged in a downward spiral of actions and counter actions and calls on both sides **t to exacerbate existing divisions, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday. Israel is withholding critical tax revenue and seeking ways to prosecute Palestinian leaders for war crimes in retaliation for Palestinian moves to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). "We call on Israel to immediately resume the transfer of tax revenues," U.N. deputy political affairs chief Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen told the Security Council. "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is **w entering unchartered territory, which, lamentably, seems to have dashed any immediate hope for a return to peace talks." The council's monthly meeting on the Middle East was the first on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the failure last month of a Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations Security Council.
01-16-2015, 01:22 PM
UN alarmed by Israeli, Palestinian 'downward spiral'
By Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is alarmed that Israelis and Palestinians are engaged in a downward spiral of actions and counter actions and calls on both sides **t to exacerbate existing divisions, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday. Israel is withholding critical tax revenue and seeking ways to prosecute Palestinian leaders for war crimes in retaliation for Palestinian moves to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). "We call on Israel to immediately resume the transfer of tax revenues," U.N. deputy political affairs chief Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen told the Security Council. "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is **w entering unchartered territory, which, lamentably, seems to have dashed any immediate hope for a return to peace talks." The council's monthly meeting on the Middle East was the first on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the failure last month of a Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations Security Council.
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