The attack has been widely condemned by the international community, especially Turkey, whose prime minister called the incident a "bloody massacre." A statement from Turkey's Parliament said that "[t]his attack was an open violation of United Nations rules and international law." Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, now envoy to a group negotiating for peace in the Middle East, the Quartet on the Middle East said that the incident was a "terrible, horrible and tragic incident." Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak , visited troops who had been involved in the incident, saying that "[w]e need to always remember that we aren't North America or Western Europe, we live in the Middle East, in a place where there is no mercy for the weak and there aren't second chances for those who don't defend themselves."
The attack has been widely condemned by the international community, especially Turkey, whose prime minister called the incident a "bloody massacre." A statement from Turkey's Parliament said that "[t]his attack was an open violation of United Nations rules and international law." Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, now envoy to a group negotiating for peace in the Middle East, the said that the incident was a "terrible, horrible and tragic incident." Israel's defense minister, , visited troops who had been involved in the incident, saying that "[w]e need to always remember that we aren't North America or Western Europe, we live in the Middle East, in a place where there is no mercy for the weak and there aren't second chances for those who don't defend themselves."
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Quartet on the Middle East
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Ehud Barak