[News] Israeli army opens fire on foreign diplomats in occupied West Bank

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 Israeli army opens fire on foreign diplomats in occupied West Bank

Tel Aviv issued an apology, 'regretting the inconvenience' as EU officials
demand an investigation into the incident

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MAY 21, 2025 -
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A delegation of foreign diplomats came under fire from Israeli troops at
the eastern entrance of Jenin Refugee Camp in the occupied West Bank on 21
May.

The delegation included ambassadors, consuls, and diplomats from the EU,
UK, Egypt, Jordan, China, Russia, Japan, Morocco, Portugal, Austria,
Brazil, Bulgaria, Turkiye, Spain, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Mexico, Sri
Lanka, Canada, India, Chile, and France.

“The direct gunfire by Israeli occupation soldiers toward 25 Arab and
European ambassadors and diplomats during their visit to Jenin Camp is a
blatant display of the occupation’s arrogance, brutality, and violation of
all international norms and conventions,” Palestinian resistance movement
Hamas said following the attack.

Hamas also condemned the Israeli siege
<https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/4/16/israeli-military-attacks-family-car-carrying-father-and-children-in-jenin>
of several West Bank cities, which has been ongoing since January, calling
it “a frenzied attempt to carry out plans of annexation and displacement
through intensified settlement expansion and the theft of land from its
rightful owners.”
EU Foreign Policy chief Kaja Kallas responded to the Israeli attack by
calling on authorities in Tel Aviv to probe the incident.

“We definitely call on Israel to investigate this incident and also hold
those accountable who are responsible for this … Any threats on diplomats’
lives are unacceptable. Israel is also a signatory to the Vienna Convention
– the obligation to guarantee the security of all foreign diplomats,”
Kallas said during an EU-African Union press conference.

The Israeli army issued a statement “regretting the inconvenience” and
claimed its troops “fired warning shots” at the delegation, asserting that
the foreign diplomats “went off the path approved by the military.” An
Israeli security source told i24NEWS this was “a bad incident that was not
supposed to happen.”

“This is not an ‘inconvenience.’ It is a serious incident to which we will
react appropriately, following consultations with our partners,” a western
diplomatic official whose country was represented in the delegation told
the *Times of Israel*
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/eu-top-diplomat-urges-israel-to-probe-warning-shots-at-diplomats-official-says-idf-apology-insufficient/>
.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from Jenin
Refugee Camp and other cities in the occupied West Bank since Tel Aviv
initiated a brutal invasion of the area at the start of the year.
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