E.U. foreign ministers urged Israel to accept international monitors to help end Israeli-Palestinian violence. Independent monitors “would serve the interests of both parties,” the ministers said in a statement issued in Brussels. EU officials stressed that Israel — which has long opposed Palestinian calls for a peacekeeping mission — would have to accept the plan before monitors could be dispatched to the region.
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