Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday evening telephoned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and reiterated his remarks in an interview on NPR radio in the United States, in which he said that Israelis have the right to defend themselves against violence in Jerusalem’s Old City and everywhere.
Kerry also told Netanyahu that the Palestinians must end the incitement and that Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas must condemn the violence in a loud and clear voice, as he had said in that same interview.
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