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Israel's prime minister has urged Palestinians to "get to grips with the reality" of Jerusalem being declared the nation's capital
Netanyahu’s comments came amid rising tensions and hours after a man from Palestine stabbed an Israeli security guard, although it was not immediately clear whether the bus station attack was motivated by Donald Trump's move to recognise the city as Israel’s capital.
Netanyahu said Jerusalem had been the capital of Israel for 3,000 years and demanded those in the Muslim and Arab world protesting Donald Trump's recent declaration to instead focus on a peaceful resolution.
"You can read it in a very fine book - it's called the Bible," he said in Paris on Sunday.
"You can read it after the Bible. You can hear it in the history of Jewish communities throughout our diaspora... Where else is the capital of Israel, but in Jerusalem?
"The sooner the Palestinians come to grips with this reality, the sooner we will move towards peace."
This comes after a security guard was stabbed at the entrance to Jerusalem's bustling central bus station, seriously wounding him in the first attack since the US president recognized it as Israel's capital last week.
It was not immediately clear whether the bus station attack was motivated by Mr Trump's move, which upended decades of US foreign policy and drew swift criticism from around the world, including US allies in Europe and the Middle East.
Israeli police said the attacker was a 24-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank city of Nablus.
Onlookers react to the stabbing attack. (AAP)
Israeli media identified him as Yassin Abu al-Qarah, who posted on his Facebook page in recent days about Jerusalem, writing "our blood is devoted" to the holy city.
Comments on his profile called him a hero for allegedly carrying out the Jerusalem attack.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the guard sustained a serious wound to his upper body and the attacker was apprehended.
Israel's Channel 10 TV news broadcast security camera video showing the attacker removing his jacket near the security gate and then thrusting what looked like a knife into the guard's chest before fleeing.
Mr Trump's announcement has raised fears about a new wave of violence. Four Palestinians were killed in Gaza in Israeli airstrikes following rocket fire from there and in clashes along the border. In the West Bank, there were dozens of injuries, but no deaths.
Israeli police officers hold a suspect at the scene of the attack. (AAP)
Four days of street protests have largely died down, but his overturning of long-standing US policy on Jerusalem drew more Arab warnings of potential damage to prospects for Middle East peace.
"Our hope is that everything is calming down and that we are returning to a path of normal life without riots and without violence," Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Army Radio on Sunday.
In Beirut, Lebanese security forces fired tear gas and water canons at protesters, some of them waving Palestinian flags, near the US embassy.
Demonstrators set fires in the street, torched US and Israeli flags and threw projectiles towards security forces that had barricaded the main road to the complex.
Arab foreign ministers who met in Cairo on Saturday urged the US to abandon its decision on Jerusalem and said the move would spur violence throughout the region.
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan said the US move "could throw a lifebuoy to terrorist and armed groups, which have begun to lose ground" in the Middle East.
Along Israel's tense frontier with the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military on Sunday destroyed what it described as a "significant" cross-border attack tunnel dug by the enclave's dominant Islamist group, Hamas.
Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed two Palestinian gunmen after militants fired rockets from the area into Israel on Friday.
In the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Sunday, thousands protested outside the US embassy.
Leaders in Indonesia have joined a global chorus of condemnation of Trump's announcement, including from Western allies.
With AAP & Associated Press
https://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/12/11/05/16/us-jerusalem-decision-backlash-continues
Netanyahu’s comments came amid rising tensions and hours after a man from Palestine stabbed an Israeli security guard, although it was not immediately clear whether the bus station attack was motivated by Donald Trump's move to recognise the city as Israel’s capital.
Netanyahu said Jerusalem had been the capital of Israel for 3,000 years and demanded those in the Muslim and Arab world protesting Donald Trump's recent declaration to instead focus on a peaceful resolution.
"You can read it in a very fine book - it's called the Bible," he said in Paris on Sunday.
"You can read it after the Bible. You can hear it in the history of Jewish communities throughout our diaspora... Where else is the capital of Israel, but in Jerusalem?
"The sooner the Palestinians come to grips with this reality, the sooner we will move towards peace."
This comes after a security guard was stabbed at the entrance to Jerusalem's bustling central bus station, seriously wounding him in the first attack since the US president recognized it as Israel's capital last week.
It was not immediately clear whether the bus station attack was motivated by Mr Trump's move, which upended decades of US foreign policy and drew swift criticism from around the world, including US allies in Europe and the Middle East.
Israeli police said the attacker was a 24-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank city of Nablus.
Onlookers react to the stabbing attack. (AAP)
Israeli media identified him as Yassin Abu al-Qarah, who posted on his Facebook page in recent days about Jerusalem, writing "our blood is devoted" to the holy city.
Comments on his profile called him a hero for allegedly carrying out the Jerusalem attack.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the guard sustained a serious wound to his upper body and the attacker was apprehended.
Israel's Channel 10 TV news broadcast security camera video showing the attacker removing his jacket near the security gate and then thrusting what looked like a knife into the guard's chest before fleeing.
Mr Trump's announcement has raised fears about a new wave of violence. Four Palestinians were killed in Gaza in Israeli airstrikes following rocket fire from there and in clashes along the border. In the West Bank, there were dozens of injuries, but no deaths.
Israeli police officers hold a suspect at the scene of the attack. (AAP)
Four days of street protests have largely died down, but his overturning of long-standing US policy on Jerusalem drew more Arab warnings of potential damage to prospects for Middle East peace.
"Our hope is that everything is calming down and that we are returning to a path of normal life without riots and without violence," Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Army Radio on Sunday.
In Beirut, Lebanese security forces fired tear gas and water canons at protesters, some of them waving Palestinian flags, near the US embassy.
Demonstrators set fires in the street, torched US and Israeli flags and threw projectiles towards security forces that had barricaded the main road to the complex.
Arab foreign ministers who met in Cairo on Saturday urged the US to abandon its decision on Jerusalem and said the move would spur violence throughout the region.
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan said the US move "could throw a lifebuoy to terrorist and armed groups, which have begun to lose ground" in the Middle East.
Along Israel's tense frontier with the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military on Sunday destroyed what it described as a "significant" cross-border attack tunnel dug by the enclave's dominant Islamist group, Hamas.
Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed two Palestinian gunmen after militants fired rockets from the area into Israel on Friday.
In the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Sunday, thousands protested outside the US embassy.
Leaders in Indonesia have joined a global chorus of condemnation of Trump's announcement, including from Western allies.
With AAP & Associated Press
https://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/12/11/05/16/us-jerusalem-decision-backlash-continues
