STOLKHOLM: Sweden has strongly criticized the Israeli regime for conducting extrajudicial executions against the Palestinians implicated in alleged stabbing attacks.
On Friday, Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said Israeli military forces exercise “extrajudicial executions” or employ disproportionate force in clashes with Palestinian protesters, citing as ostensible proof the higher number of Palestinian casualties compared to those of Israel.
Israels response involved extrajudicial executions, and was disproportionate, so the number of the dead on the other side is greater than the original death toll by several factors, she said.
Wallstroms remarks outraged Israeli authorities, with the Israeli Foreign Ministry releasing a statement to denounce them.
More than 110 Palestinians and nearly 20 Israelis have been killed in the recent wave of clashes between Palestinians and Israelis since the start of October.
Tensions between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip continue unabated. The wave of unrest was triggered by Israels imposition in August of restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds.
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