Mnatsakanyan: Armenia contributes to the settlement of the  Palestinian conflict on the basis of the principle of two states

ArmInfo. Armenia contributes to the settlement of the Palestinian conflict on the  basis of the principle of two states. Armenian Foreign Minister  Zohrab Mnatsakanyan said this on February 24 during a joint press  conference with the Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak.

"Recognizing the right of Israel to a safe and peaceful state for its  citizens, we are simultaneously assisting the Palestinian people in  striving to create an independent state by realizing the right to  self-determination," the Armenian Foreign Minister noted.  At the  same time, he emphasized that the focus of Yerevan is the development  of the situation around the status of Jerusalem, given the  centuries-old Armenian presence and rich heritage. "Armenia considers  East Jerusalem as part of the territories occupied in 1967 and its  final status should be determined as a result of negotiations between  interested parties," Mnatsakanyan summed up.

Earlier, the Israeli Army said it attacked the positions of the  Palestinian Islamic Jihad group in Syria and the Gaza Strip. "We have  just hit Islamic terrorist targets in Syria and Gaza in response to  missiles launched by Israeli civilians today," a statement said on  Twitter.

On the eve of the Israeli military said that in the first two waves  of shelling by militants 21 missiles were fired at Ashkelon and  border villages, 13 of them were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile  defense system.

As a result of Israeli retaliatory attacks on Gaza, according to the  Ministry of Health, four Palestinians were injured.

Another exacerbation on the border of the Palestinian enclave began  after an Israeli strike on Sunday by a group of Palestinians who,  according to the Israeli army, tried to lay an explosive device at  the separation fence, began on the border. The army noted that these  same people participated in attempts to place explosives on the  border.