Swedish FM urges serious probe into Israeli war crimes

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom called on Tuesday for launching a serious probe into the acts of violence and murder perpetrated by the Israeli occupation army against the Palestinians. 

Wallstrom pushed for an investigation to determine whether the Israeli occupation was guilty of extrajudicial killings of Palestinians during recent violence there, local media reported.

"It is vital that there is a thorough, credible investigation into these deaths in order to clarify and bring about possible accountability," Wallstrom said during a parliamentary debate, according to news agency TT.

155 Palestinians, including 28 children and seven women, had been murdered by the Israeli occupation troops since the outbreak of the ongoing anti-occupation Intifada, in early October.

The comments were the latest in a series of statements by Wallstrom that have irked the Israeli occupation authorities. Ties between Sweden and Israel nose-dived when Sweden recognized the Palestinian state shortly after Wallstrom's center-left Social Democrats won parliamentary elections in 2014.