European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini warned on Sunday against the escalation of violence in the Palestinian territories in separate phone calls to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
"(I) talked now with Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas on escalation of violence. Need to stop acts of terror and to avoid disproportionate reactions," Mogherini said in a tweet quoted by AFP, the day before a meeting of the EU's 28 foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
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