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A new security measure at one of the holiest sites for both jews and muslims. john kerry met with jordanian and palestinian officials yesterday. he calls it a potential game-changer. let's talk to david, a former u.n. and state department official. the point being, david, there will be a 24 hour video surveillance at the holy site where there has been a lot of violence lately. i'm wondering who is going to monitor that? how will it be monitored? do you think it will help as much as secretary kerry believes it will? >> it seems like a simple solution. as you mentioned each of the stakeholders a...

About the security measures that the israelis have put in place really around the country but primarily here in jerusalem. there was hope it would begin to reduce the violence and instore some calm but right now it does appear that there's been another attack. this wave of attacks has gone on for several weeks and the security measure it doesn't appear have done much to reduce them. >> connor, thank you very much. lee land, you spent a lot of time as our correspondent over there. what do you make of this? they're always there. >> and it's always right below the surface. you seen this bubbling ...

Community. they're pretty angry about it. they find it humiliating. that's what they've been telling us. the security measure is in place because of the knife attacks that have been taking place in jerusalem and elsewhere in recent weeks. it's one of the israeli responses. where as palestinians collected punishment and the entire community locked down because of the attacks. the israeli government believes it is necessarily hopefully short term step two deter and prevent and punish further attacks from taking place. that's what the israelis are trying to do. what the israelis want the palestin...

Mount or muslims as the noble sanctuary. palestinians reacting in anger to the security measure. they saw they're humiliating. they say they're a form of collective punishment. but israeli officials say they're necessary in light of the wave of recent stabbing attacks that have plagued jerusalem of late. they have deployed not only these checkpoints, but a number of other security measures, more police officers in the street, not just in jerusalem, but in cities throughout israel. more security guards guarding public transportation points. and some israelis say the measures quite simply aren't...

Muslim men under the age of 45 are not allowed to pray there as a security measure. but it's angered many muslims. we heard from benjamin netanyahu calling on members of the knesset as well as government ministers not to go to the site, to visit the site in a bid to try and de-escalate things. >> and erin, as far as these attacks go, is it the belief that these are just random attacks by individuals? there is no coordination? and what are israeli and palestinian leaders saying about the attacks? >> well, israeli leaders say that they believe that most of the attacks are lone wolf attacks, but ...