Margot Wallström Says Washington Bears Major Responsibility for Gaza Deaths and Injuries

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström said the United States bear a major responsibility in the Gaza events, describing the death and injury toll by the Israeli army during the protests in Gaza as "horrific."

“Sweden: Washington's responsibility in the Gaza events is 'major'”

Anadolu Ajansı

Wallström told Swedish news agency TT that "Washington has a major responsibility in the recent events during which between 50 and 60 people were killed and thousands of others wounded."

Anadolu Ajansı

The Anadolu Ajansı account says the Israeli army deliberately carried out a massacre against peaceful protesters on the Gaza border, with "Sixty-two people were killed and more than 3,188 were injured."

The same Anadolu Ajansı report frames the protests as occurring as Palestinians protested the transfer of the United States embassy to occupied Jerusalem and commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Nakba.

Dozens of demonstrators gathered in Stockholm on Saturday to protest continued Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, assembling in Odenplan Square after a call by civil society organizations.

The WAFA Agency report says participants carried banners reading “Civilians are being killed in Gaza,” “Schools and hospitals are being bombed,” “Stop the attacks on Lebanon,” “End food shortages,” and “We do not want war.”

K. Les Juifs

The demonstrators called for an end to the "genocide" in Gaza and a halt to Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon, according to the same WAFA account.

WAFA also dates the protest to May 30, 2026, and places it in Stockholm, May 30, 2026 (WAFA), 10:42 PM.

A K. Les Juifs feature on antisemitism in Sweden links reactions to the October 7 massacre and the war in Gaza to concerns about antisemitism in Sweden.

“Pro-government Iranian demonstrators wave their country's flags and Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group's flags in a gathering at a square in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 29, 2026”

The Tribune-Democrat

The article describes how a Moroccan army officer, Ahmed Rami, arrived in Sweden in 1973 to seek political asylum, and later began broadcasting on Radio Islam after obtaining asylum in Sweden.

It says Rami’s radio station and related ventures broadcast themes including conspiracy theories about world control by Jews and Zionists, denialism, Nazi propaganda, lists of influential Swedish Jews, and a visceral hatred of Israel.

The feature also quotes Mathan Shastin Ravid, director of the Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism (SKMA), explaining that “SKMA is a non-religiously and politically unaffiliated NGO established in 1983,” and describes SKMA’s education focus and work with police.