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wounded Palestinian is evacuated during clashes with Israeli troops
near the Gaza-Israel border in the southern Gaza Strip City of Khan
Younis, on March 30, 2018. (Xinhua/Khaled Omar)
UNTIED
NATIONS, March 30 (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council will hold
emergency consultations on the situation in Gaza after Israeli soldiers
reportedly killed 15 Palestinian protesters along the border fence.
"At
the request of #Kuwait, the @UN Security Council will meet at 6:30 p.m.
(EST) in informal consultations ... to discuss the latest developments
in #Gaza," the Kuwaiti mission to the United Nations tweeted on Friday,
which is a UN holiday.
Israeli soldiers take position along the barrier between Gaza Strip and Israel in Nahal Oz, on March 30, 2018. (Xinhua/JINI)
Delegations of two other Security Council members -- France and the Netherlands -- also tweeted the news.
The official UN alert to journalists says it will be a closed-door meeting.
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