Middle East crisis: Germany joins calls for Israel to ‘fully explain … mass panic and shooting’ at Gaza aid site – as it happened
by Martin Belam (now) and Mabel Banfield-Nwachi (earl from World news | The Guardian on (#6K0PW)
Comments by foreign minister Annalena Baerbock follow interventions by France and US after 112 Palestinians killed. This live blog is now closed
France has called for an independent investigation into the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza who were gathered to receive humanitarian aid on Thursday.
Stephane Sejourne, the minister for Europe and foreign affairs, told France Inter:
We will ask for explanations, and there will have to be an independent probe to determine what happened. France calls things by their name. This applies when we designate Hamas as a terrorist group, but we must also call things by their name when there are atrocities in Gaza.
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