His request to implement as soon as possible “permanent ceasefire» at Gaza Striprepeated yesterday Wednesday 27/12 during his telephone conversation with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Emmanuel Macron as the Élysée announced. “France will undertake initiatives of a humanitarian nature in the coming days in the Palestinian enclave,” he stressed.
In his conversation with the Israeli prime minister, the French president stressed the “need” for the parties to “work for a lasting ceasefire, with the help of all regional and international partners,” in the Gaza Strip, according to the French press release. presidency. France “will work in the coming days, in coordination with Jordan,” to carry out “humanitarian operations” in the small Palestinian territory, under total siege since October 9.
Emmanuel Macron, as reported by the Athens News Agency citing AFP, expressed to Benjamin Netanyahu his “deep concern” over the “very heavy toll” of civilian casualties and the “absolutely urgent humanitarian crisis” facing the population in the Gaza Strip.
He reiterated “the importance of Israel taking all necessary measures” to end attacks by “certain settlers against Palestinian civilians” in the occupied West Bank, as well as “any new plans to build settlements” in that area.
Last week, the head of French diplomacy Catherine Colonna said that France will “take measures at the national level against certain extremist Jewish settlers.”
She also expressed concern about the threat of war spreading to the region, as clashes on the Lebanon/Israel border continue, while in the Red Sea, Yemen's Houthi rebels threaten the movement of merchant ships in a show of “support” for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
During the conversation, Mr Netanyahu “thanked” France for “defending freedom of navigation” and for its “willingness to help restore security along Israel's border with Lebanon”, his services said. in Jerusalem. He also “informed” Mr. Macron about the developments in the war and the “efforts” to return “the hostages”.
More than two and a half months after the outbreak of war, triggered by an unprecedented attack by Hamas on sectors of southern Israel on October 7, the Palestinian Islamist movement's health ministry announced on Wednesday that 21,100 people, the vast majority of them women and children, had been killed. in Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip.
The Hamas attack killed 1,140 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli statements. About 250 other people were abducted and taken to the Gaza Strip, where more than 120 remain in captivity, according to Israeli authorities. Besides, 164 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Israeli ground operations since October 27 in the Palestinian enclave, according to the general staff. A portion of the Israeli press considers this number to be underestimated.
Source: News Beast
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