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"In Gaza on Friday again thousands of Palestinians have demonstrated, sometimes violently, near the fence ... In the occupied West Bank on Saturday a Palestinian woman was killed by stone throwing. Three Israeli civilians have also been killed in recent days and weeks. All such incidents need to be investigated and perpetrators brought to justice," the spokeswoman for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Maja Kocijancic, said on Sunday in a statement.
The European Union also called on all parties concerned to exercise restraint to further killings. In addition, the bloc reiterated that it saw a political settlement as the only solution to the conflict.
The EU spokeswoman's statement comes following reports on Friday stating that at least seven Palestinian protesters were killed in clashes with Israeli troops near the Gaza Strip border. The Israeli military, in their turn, explained that the troops had opened fire on a group of the Palestinian militants, who approached an army post and detonated a bomb.
Tensions between the Israeli army and the Palestinian protesters near the Gaza border have been mounting since late March, which marked the beginning of the Great March of Return series of demonstrations.
Comment: While the EU and US drags its feet in holding the genocidal regime of Israel to account, politicians, councils, universities, and a variety of other groups, from Spain, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Australia, and South Africa, to name just a few, are joining together in BDS movements against Israel and its crimes against humanity:
- March of Return: Israel's Officially Sanctioned Use of Deadly Force Against Palestinians Delivers Deadly Blow to Its Credibility
- Ethnic cleansing before your eyes: Israel's 'incremental genocide'
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