Secretary General PBB Supports Palestinian State

Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, on Saturday said the international community "strongly supports" efforts to establish a Palestinian state when he began a regional tour aimed at reviving peace talks.

He started his two-day visit to meet Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Sayyad in Ramallah, West Bank, and praised the plan to build the institutions of an independent Palestinian state in mid-2011.

Ban is also scheduled to meet senior officials will visit Israel and the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-ruled. The rubble is still visible in large areas of Gaza following the Israeli attacks during the 22 days in December 2008.

Along with Ban's visit, the violence continued on Saturday when Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian youth who threw stones at them and a more serious injuries in the village of Burin, West Bank, said medical officials and Palestinian security.

They said the soldiers entered Iraq Burin, a village south of Nablus which is often the area of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli settlers, in order to break the battle between the villagers and residents near the settlement of Bracha.

Villagers said the fighting broke out when settlers attacked the village and not related to the protests against the Israeli settlements that occurred in the West Bank and East Jerusalem last week.

Israeli Army memeberikan not immediately comment on the incident.

Meanwhile, Palestinians fired a rocket from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, but fell on open ground, the military said.

The shooting was the second rocket into Israel since the projectile rocket killed a worker from Thailand on Thursday. Worker is the first person killed by rocket attacks from the area since the war Gaza.




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