JERUSALEM, May 29, 2018 (WAFA) - United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, Tuesday called on the Palestinians and Israel to exercise restraint following rise of tension and violence in Gaza.

Mladenov said he was “deeply concerned” by what he called “the indiscriminate firing of rockets by Palestinian militants from Gaza towards communities in Southern Israel,” without mentioning anything about the Israeli strikes at Gaza that killed four Palestinians since Sunday or the 116 Palestinians killed and 13,000 injured by Israeli gunfire since March 30 without any Palestinian response.

The Palestinians fired a barrage of rockets at Israel on Tuesday morning, causing slight damage to open fields but no injuries. They said the rockets came in response to the latest Israeli killing of Palestinians and almost daily strikes on Gaza.

The UN official said the attacks by the Palestinians “are unacceptable and undermine the serious efforts by the international community to improve the situation in Gaza.”

He called on all parties to “exercise restraint, avoid escalation and prevent incidents that jeopardize the lives of Palestinians and Israelis.”

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