Unrest continues in the occupied West Bank and in Jerusalem. On Wednesday, a Palestinian driver killed an Israeli pedestrian and wounded 14 others after ramming his car into them on the side of a road. Three Israeli soldiers were also wounded in a similar incident nearby. The attacks reportedly came in response to Israeli forces storming the al-Aqsa compound after Palestinians protested the planned entry of extremist Israelis. The clashes come as Israel announced plans for 500 new settlement homes in East Jerusalem. Jordan has recalled its ambassador to Israel in protest of what it calls an “increasing and unprecedented Israeli escalation.” At the United Nations, Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour asked the Security Council to intervene.

Riyad Mansour: “This explosive situation, in which extremists in the Israeli government and among the settlers and other extreme groups are trying to push the region into religious confrontation, and that attitude and behavior will take us to a place where we don’t know the results of that intensification of this sensitive situation in occupied East Jerusalem.”