'Netanyahu could start a war'

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's decision to include Jewish landmarks in the West Bank in the government's new list of heritage sites is a "severe provocation that could lead to a new cycle of violence, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in speech to the Belgian parliament Tuesday.

Abbas told the ministers that the inclusion of Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron on the list of sites of national importance could ignite a "war of religions in the region.