Israel's envoy to the United Arab Emirates was summoned on Tuesday following violent clashes that broke out at the Temple Mount compound.
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Amir Hayek, Israel's first ambassador to the UAE, was expected at the Emirati International Cooperation Ministry, WAM news agency reported.
The Emirati International Cooperation Minister, Reem bint Ibrahim al-Hashemy, summoned Hayek in protest of the clashes at the Temple Mount between Israeli authorities and Palestinians in recent days.
According to WAM, al-Hashemy stressed the need to put an immediate end to the unrest and for Israeli forces to protect Muslim worshippers. She further expressed concern over what such escalation could mean for the stability of the region.
The minister also called on Israel to return to the negotiations over the implementation of the two-state solution and the "establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, with east Jerusalem as its capital."
Also on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders to discuss recent violence in Israel and the West Bank that has escalated tensions in the region, officials said.
Blinken stressed the importance of maintaining the "status quo" at Jerusalem holy sites.
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said he updated the top US diplomat on Tuesday about Israel's efforts to ensure freedom of worship in Jerusalem, after clashes with Israeli riot police on Friday inside the Al Aqsa mosque compound in which at least 152 Palestinians were wounded.
Lapid blamed "hundreds of Islamic extremists" for rioting and spreading disinformation that inflame tensions.
"I told @SecBlinken that Israel will not tolerate calls in support of violence, and I emphasized the need for international support for returning calm to Jerusalem," he said on Twitter.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Abbas told Blinken on Tuesday that "brutal attacks" by Israeli forces and settlers on the mosque compound and Israeli incursions into Palestinian cities and villages "will lead to dire and unbearable consequences," Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
In a call on Monday, Blinken and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi discussed the importance of Israelis and Palestinians working to end the violence and refraining from escalatory actions, State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
i24NEWS contributed to this report.
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