US Secretary of State John Kerry expressed strong support for Israel and condemned a wave of Palestinian Arab terror attacks Tuesday as he met Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to try to ease weeks of violence, AFP reports.
Arriving with scant hopes for a major breakthrough, Kerry discussed with Netanyahu ways of calming tensions and planned to do the same later in the day with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.
"Clearly, no people anywhere should live with daily violence, with attacks in the streets, with knives, with scissors, cars," Kerry told reporters at Netanyahu's office ahead of talks with the Israeli prime minister. "And it is very clear to us that terrorism, these acts of terrorism, deserve the condemnation that they are receiving and today I express my complete condemnation for any act of terror that takes innocent lives."