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Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Belgium summons Israeli envoy over Gaza statements
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleBelgium’s foreign minister Didier Reynders is summoning the Israeli ambassador after she indicated that all Palestinians killed in Monday’s violence were “terrorists.”
Prime Minister Charles Michel says he was “shocked” by the interview with RTBF in which ambassador Simona Frankel said that those who died in Monday’s clashes “are terrorists, 55 terrorists.”
Reynders says that “the comment that consisted of saying that all killed or hurt were terrorists — that we can obviously not accept.”
He also took offense at Frankel’s comment that Israeli soldiers had to act before there were casualties on their side.
“There were two statements I could not accept: One on proportionality of force by saying they could not wait for Israeli casualties — there were none,” he says.
— AP
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