Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki met ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda here early on Tuesday, urging him to open an official probe and send a team of investigators to collect evidence in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip in order to build a case against Israel, a spokesperson for the PNA told Efe news.
On May 14, Israeli troops opened fire on thousands of Palestinian protesters gathered at the buffer zone between Israel and the Gaza Strip in a mass demonstration, dubbed the "March of the Great Return", symbolising the inability of many Palestinian refugees to return to their land.
The Israeli Army killed at least 61 people, including several children and injured over 2,000 but insisted that the protests were called by the Islamist militant group Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007.
It coincided with the opening ceremony of the US embassy in Jerusalem, a controversial move by President Donald Trump given that Palestinians envision East Jerusalem, occupied by Israel since 1967, to be a future capital of the State of Palestine.
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