Earlier in the day, United Nations officials said that Israel may have committed war crimes against Palestinians during the last year’s protests.
Israeli Acting Foreign Minister Israel Katz said that the UN Human Rights Council had “produced another hostile, mendacious and slanted report against the State of Israel… No one can deny Israel the right of self-defence and the obligation to defend its citizens and borders from violent attacks.”
In turn, Israel said that it opened fire to protect the frontier from invasion and attacks by armed militants.