French Ambassador Patrick Maisonnave was scheduled to meet with the Israeli Foreign Ministry's deputy director-general of the Europe Division Aviv Shir-On and head of the Division for International Organizations Ronny Leshno-Yaar, according to a ministry statement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was furious at the French proposal, submitted to the United Nations, to put international observers to at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
The mosque is located in a site holy to both Muslims, who call it the Nobel Sanctuary, and to Jews, who know it as the Temple Mount.
"Israel cannot accept the French draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council," Netanyahu told his cabinet at the start of their weekly meeting on Sunday.
"It doesn't mention Palestinian terrorism, and it calls for the internationalization of the Temple Mount."
The proposal, put out in response to a month-long wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence, is expected to be discussed at the U.N. Security Council on Thursday.
Netanyahu told US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday night he would make "no concessions or tribute" to the Palestinians, Channel 2 TV reported.
Netanyahu and Kerry talked over the phone, ahead of a round of meetings that Kerry was scheduled to hold this week with Israeli and Palestinians leaders, in a bid to halt the violence.
An official with the prime minister's office said the Israeli leader is thinking of canceling his journey to Germany, where he was scheduled to meet separately with Kerry and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss a European Union bid to label goods originated in the Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
A recent spate of violence between Israelis and Palestinians claimed the lives of eight Israelis, mostly killed in Palestinian knife attacks, and at least 40 Palestinians, most of them killed during clashes with security forces or following attacks on Israelis.
Xinhua - globaltimes.cn
19/10/15
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