The Arab League held an emergency meeting Thursday and called for an international investigation into the "excessive force" used by the Israeli military against Palestinian protesters on the Israel-Gaza Strip border.
The meeting was called three days after the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem which was clouded by deadly riots on the Gaza border, where 60 protesters were killed and 2,700 were wounded.
The Israeli military said it had proof that at least 24 of the dead were known terrorists. On Tuesday, Hamas, the terrorist group that controls the coastal enclave, admitted that 50 of the dead were operatives in its ranks.
The 22-member pan-Arab forum issued a condemnation of the high casualty toll earlier this week.
Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit on Thursday called for an international inquest into alleged crimes committed by Israeli security forces during mass infiltration attempts along the Israel-Gaza frontier Monday.
"We call for a credible international investigation into the crimes committed by the occupation," Aboul-Gheit said at the session, held in Cairo.
Lebanon's delegation said its Foreign Ministry had sent a letter to the International Criminal Court demanding it "undertake measures" to hold to account those responsible for the killings of Palestinians. It did not specify what those measures should be.
