Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Israel’s security forces after the killings of 17 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, just as condemnation over the Israeli army’s use of live ammunition against protesters grows.
In a statement on Saturday, Netanyahu thanked his troops for “guarding the country’s borders” and allowing “Israeli citizens to celebrate the [Passover] holiday peacefully”.
“Well done to our soldiers,” he said.
According to Al Jazeera, several countries and rights groups have denounced the shooting of the Palestinian protesters, who demonstrated in their thousands along Gaza’s eastern border on Friday.
More than 1,500 others were wounded when Israeli forces fired live ammunition at protesters, used tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets to push them back from the border area, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
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