JERUSALEM (WJC) — Benjamin Netanyahu lashed back at Sweden’s Foreign Minister Margot Wallström, saying her call to investigate whether recent killings of Palestinian attackers by Israel were “extrajudicial” was “outrageous”, “immoral” and “stupid”.
The Israeli prime minister, who also holds the post of foreign minister, said at the Government Press Office’s annual toast for members of the foreign media in Israel: “It is definitely wrong and it singles out Israel in an absurd way… and it’s stupid”
Wallström had called for “thorough and credible investigations” into the deaths of Palestinians who died since the outbreak of violence in October. Some 155 Palestinians – mostly attackers – have been killed in unrest since October.
In that time, 26 Israelis have been killed in stabbing, shooting or car-ramming attacks by Palestinians or Israeli-Arabs.
The attackers who have been killed have either been shot dead by their victims or security forces. Others have been arrested.
On Tuesday, Wallström told the Swedish parliament that it was “vital that there is a thorough, credible investigation into these deaths in order to clarify and bring about possible accountability.”
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