An Update on Violence Between Israel and Palestinians

BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: As you mentioned, it began, this current round of hostilities, it began here with a question of who has the right to these homes. These homes that are just behind me. And typically, of this situation, there’s so much dry kindling. All it takes is a spark, and the spark started here. The fire spread. And now, of course, you have massive protests with well over a hundred people wounded just today in the West Bank. You’ve got this high death toll in Gaza. At least 12 people killed in Israel. And a situation that’s highly volatile. Now, with also some tensions on the border between Israel and Lebanon. There have been tensions on the border between the Israeli occupied West Bank and Jordan as well. So, it’s very indicative when you have just a small what appears to be local tensions can spread so fast and so deadly. Bianna.

GOLODRYGA: And on that point, Ben, given the tinder box that that is and this particular settlement is, we know that the Supreme Court decision has been put on hold for now. Is there any sense as to how long it will be on hold, and when a decision could be expected or will it continue to be on hold as long as this violence continues?

WEDEMAN: Well, the hearings should resume, now it’s not a month, but probably in three weeks. The question is, is somebody going to take an executive decision and decide this really is not worth it to set this whole area on fire for this. But that would take an executive decision. At the moment, it seems to be going through the courts. And as Palestinians will tell you, when it comes to Israeli courts, they really feel that they get a short shrift. So, there’s not a lot of confidence that this will be resolved legally. Lawyers being lawyers, the law being the law, this could end up being a very long and prolonged process.