Emmanuel Macron continues to try to convince Benjamin Netanyahu to silence the guns in the Middle East. The Head of State thus reiterated on Wednesday, during a telephone interview with the Israeli Prime Minister, his request for a “lasting ceasefire, with the help of all regional and international partners” in Gaza.
During this exchange, the president indicated, according to the Elysée, that “France will work in the coming days, in conjunction with Jordan, to carry out humanitarian operations” in the Palestinian territory.
Warning against “any new colonization project”
Emmanuel Macron also expressed to Benyamin Netanyahu “his deepest concern about the very heavy civilian death toll and the absolute humanitarian emergency faced by the civilian population of Gaza,” added the Elysée. The French president once again “insisted on the importance for Israel to take all necessary measures to put an end to the violence committed by certain settlers against Palestinian civilians” in the occupied West Bank, “as well as to any new colonization project » in this territory.
Last week, the head of French diplomacy Catherine Colonna declared that France would “take national measures against certain extremist Israeli settlers”. And she expressed her fear of a regionalization of the conflict at a time of an increase in tensions on the Lebanese-Israeli border and in the Red Sea where the Houthi rebels are threatening maritime traffic in “support” of Gaza.
During this telephone interview, Benyamin Netanyahu “thanked” France for its “defense of freedom of navigation” and “for its desire to help restore security along Israel’s border with Lebanon,” they said. indicated his services in Jerusalem. The Israeli Prime Minister also “updated” Emmanuel Macron on the latest developments in the war in Gaza and on the “efforts to bring back the hostages”.