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UNSC to hold emergency meeting on Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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IANS | 15 May, 2018
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting to address the
violent clashes between Palestinian protestors and Israeli forces along
the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, a Palestinian envoy said on Monday.
Speaking
to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, Riyad Mansour,
Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, said
the meeting will take place "possibly within the next 24 hours."
"We
condemn in the strongest term this atrocity by the Israeli occupying
forces using this massive fire power against civilians who have the
right to demonstrate peacefully," Xinhua quoted Mansour as saying.
Mansour
said 45 Palestinians were killed, including eight under the age of 16,
and more than 2,000 were injured in violent clashes with Israeli forces
on Monday when the US moved its embassy to Jerusalem, which trigged the
escalation of conflict at the Gaza border.
The escalation has
brought the number of casualties since March 30, when the Palestinians
first held the "Great Return March" protests, to almost 100 dead and
more than 11,000 injured.
He further demanded international
protection for the civilian population and called on the Security
Council to condemn "this massacre" and to provide security to the
Palestinians.
When asked about forming an independent
investigation that he had earlier urged, Mansour said 14 members of the
Security Council were receptive to the idea but one member "was
obstructing the Council from doing so."
He added the UNHCR in
Geneva, the world body's human rights organ, may undertake the task of
establishing such an investigation commission.
Mansour said he
expects the Palestinian leadership later Monday to decide on whether to
refer to the recent events as war crimes, as recommended by the
Palestinian National Council.
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