Belgium is calling for an international investigation into Monday’s escalation in violence along the Gaza border, where Israeli soldiers shot and killed more than 50 Palestinians, including many Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists, during mass protests.
Prime Minister Charles Michel links the violence on the border with the Trump administration’s decision to relocate the US Embassy to contested Jerusalem despite international and Palestinian protests.
Michel says the violence and killings would be moved onto the calendar of the European Union summit in Sofia on Wednesday and Thursday.
Michel calls the Israeli actions “unacceptable violence,” saying “there is a clear lack of proportionality and we are asking for an international investigation.”
He says he is outraged by the violence, especially in contrast with the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on the same day.
He says “we knew that there was a great risk, that this decision to move the embassy would bring less security, bring tragedies, and sadly we were right.”
— AP
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