UK, EU Call for De-escalation After Citizens Killed in Israel–Palestine Clash

Israeli medics and policemen check a damaged car at the scene of a shooting attack, in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank on April 7, 2023. Gil Eliyahu/Reuters

The UK and the European Union called for calm in Israel after British and Italian citizens were killed in two separate attacks on April 7.

It comes amid another flare-up of the Israel–Palestine conflict during the religious month of April, which contains Judaism’s Passover, Christianity’s Easter, and Islam’s Ramadan.