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Israel Remark Linking Gaza to Toulouse

By ISABEL KERSHNER

JERUSALEM — Israel ’s leaders on Tuesday strongly censured the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton , for remarks made a day earlier in which she was perceived as having equated the killing of three children at a Jewish school in France with the death of children during the fighting in Gaza.

Speaking at a conference onPalestinian  refugees in Brussels on Monday, hours after the attack in Toulouse, France, Ms. Ashton spoke of remembering “young people who have been killed in all sorts of terrible circumstances.”

In the transcript of her comments released by the European Union, she continues: “The Belgian children having lost their lives in a terrible tragedy, and when we think of what happened in Toulouse today, when we remember what happened in Norway a year ago, when we know what is happening in Syria, when we see what is happening in Gaza and in different parts of the world — we remember young people and children who lose their lives.”

A recording  of her comments and a transcript later released by Ms. Ashton’s office show slightly different wording and include a reference to children in Sderot, Israel, a target for rockets fired from Gaza. She finishes by saying, “When we see what is happening in Gaza and Sderot, in different parts of the world — we remember young people and children who lose their lives.”

There was no immediate reaction from Israel’s leaders after the recording, on the European Commission’s Web site, was reviewed Tuesday evening. An Israeli official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the diplomatic sensitivity of the issue said of the corrected version of Ms. Ashton’s speech that she had still “made a potpourri of so many completely unrelated events — it was not her finest hour.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier that he was “infuriated” by what he called “the comparison between a deliberate massacre of children and the defensive, surgical actions” of the Israeli military that he said were “intended to hit terrorists who use children as a human shield.”

The interior minister, Eli Yishai, told Israel Radio that Ms. Ashton should not stay in her post and that her comments hurt the European Union’s ability to act as an honest broker between Israel and the Palestinians.

Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, said, “The comparison made by Ashton between what is happening in Gaza to what happened in Toulouse, and what is going on in Syria every day, is outrageous and has absolutely no grounding in reality.”

Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the bodies of the victims of the attack in France were being brought to Israel for burial at the request of their families. The three children killed held dual French-Israeli nationality.

During a visit to Chengdu, China, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s foreign minister, described Ms. Ashton’s remarks as “unworthy.” He added that the children Ms. Ashton should have been thinking about were “the children of southern Israel who live in constant fear of rocket attacks launched from Gaza,” according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

After those criticisms, Ms. Ashton’s spokesman issued a statement saying that her words had been “grossly distorted” and that she had not intended to draw any parallel. The statement said that Ms. Ashton “strongly condemns the killings at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse yesterday and extends her sympathies to the families and friends of the victims and to the people of France and the Jewish community.”

The statement said that her comments at the conference “referred to tragedies taking the lives of children around the world and drew no parallel whatsoever between the circumstances of the Toulouse attack and the situation in Gaza.”

In the latest cross-border violence between Israel and militant groups in Gaza, 26 Palestinians were killed over four days, according to the Israeli military. Most were militants, but four were civilians. A 12-year-old boy was among those killed in Israeli airstrikes; another boy, 14, was killed by explosives in disputed circumstances. In the same period, Palestinian militants fired over 150 rockets into southern Israel, none of which claimed a life.

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