The killings occurred as Palestinians and Israelis marked the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel seized the West Bank and Gaza.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: “Even if June (the Six-Day War) went down in history as marking the defeat of the Arabs by Israel, our standing up to this defeat, in spite of the hardships, could make up for what we have lost in war. Perhaps we can even erase it from memory with a great achievement: putting an end to the occupation of Palestinian and Arab lands, creating our independent state, recovering our Jerusalem, solving the refugee problem in a just and acceptable manner, based on legitimate international resolutions.”

Meanwhile in Jerusalem, Israeli peace activists gathered to protest the existence of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli peace activist: “We have the right to say that this situation has to be stopped. It means occupation has to be stopped. There is an option of solution, of two-state solution: withdraw from territories, two capitals in Jerusalem. And we think that we have to do everything to stop this terrible situation.”