Amid growing global outrage over Israel’s killing of Palestinians protesting at the Gaza border and the relocation of the US embassy to Jerusalem, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recalled on Tuesday his envoy to Washington. Husam Zumlot confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday that he is returning home. He said: "When they (the US) opened their embassy in Jerusalem there was a need for a decision from our side and this was our decision." The US relocated its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Monday, a move that has sparked international condemnation and Palestinian rage. The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem for their future capital. They are outraged by the move and say it invalidates Washingtons role as an impartial peace broke. Demonstrations held at the Gaza border on Monday and Tuesday in protest against the move turned violent when Israeli troops opened fire at the Palestinians, killing 60 and injuring over 2,000. The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a special session on Friday to discuss "the deteriorating human rights situation" in the Palestinian Territories. "The special session is being convened per an official request submitted this evening by Palestine and the United Arab Emirates," on behalf of the rights councils Arab Group and has so far received support from 26 states, the Geneva-based body said in a statement Tuesday. Demands for an investigation into the violence have been made by Germany, Belgium, Ireland and Britain. Earlier, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court vowed that she was watching closely the unrest in Gaza and would "take any action warranted" to prosecute crimes. "My staff is vigilantly following developments on the ground and recording any alleged crime that could fall within" the tribunals jurisdiction, Fatou Bensouda warned in a statement to AFP, "The violence must stop," she insisted, urging "all those concerned to refrain from further escalating this situation and the Israeli forces to avoid excessive use of force." The Palestinian Authority joined the ICC in January 2015 signing up to the Rome Statute which underpins the worlds only permanent war crimes court. The Palestinians asked the prosecutor to investigate crimes committed in the Palestinian territories in the Gaza war the previous year, and Bensouda opened her inquiry just a few days later. She recalled Tuesday that the "situation in Palestine is under preliminary investigation by my office". "I will be watching and I will take any action warranted by my mandate under the Rome Statute," she warned, a day after one of the bloodiest days for years in the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Bensouda said she had learned with "dismay" of Mondays death toll, which meant that since the start of the Palestinian protests on March 30 the number of reported deaths was "one hundred, with several thousand others injured." Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit condemned the "massacres" of Palestinians, which he said resemble "war crimes". In a statement he called on the international community to "protect the Palestinian people, who have chosen the path of peaceful struggle and have been confronted with brutality, violence and murder". The Arab League will hold emergency talks Wednesday to discuss what it has called Washingtons "illegal" relocation of its embassy to the disputed city. Kuwait intends to circulate a draft UN resolution to protect Palestinian civilians, its ambassador to the United Nations said Tuesday. Mansour al-Otaibi said the draft would be circulated "most probably tomorrow" and would be designed to protect the Palestinians and "provide international protection for civilians."