Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak spoke by phone with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on international efforts to restore calm throughout the Middle East, the state-run MENA news agency reported.
Mubarak and Annan consulted on "ways of implementing the latest decision of the UN Security council and on improving the dangerous situation in the Middle East region," MENA reported.
Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher charged on Sunday Israeli forces committed a war crime by killing Palestinian prisoners in cold blood.
Ahmed Maher did not provide specifics to which incident he was referring, however the bodies of five Palestinian police killed execution-style were found in an Israeli-occupied town.
"Israeli forces arrested Palestinians and subjected them to humiliation, like you saw on international television channels, then they took some of them and killed them in cold blood," the Foreign Minister said during a press conference following a meeting with Palestinian International Cooperation Minister Nabil Shaath.
"This will not pass because it is war crimes against humanity that the world cannot accept," Maher said in remarks quoted by Egypt's state-run MENA agency.
According to Israeli officials, the men were killed during a “close firefight”.(Albawaba.com)
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