If Israel refuses the ceasefire, “it would be a mistake”, believes Emmanuel Macron…

During his visit to Canada, Emmanuel Macron was confronted by demonstrators in Montreal, criticizing France’s inaction regarding the conflict in the Middle East.

Among the slogans heard, demonstrators shouted in English: “Shame on you!” (“Shame on you!”), and other direct accusations such as “You have blood on your hands.”

Emmanuel Macron spoke of the “absolutely shocking” number of civilian victims during a trip to Canada. “Israel must stop its strikes and Hezbollah must abandon its logic of retaliation,” he added in Montreal during a joint press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Israeli strikes in Lebanon yesterday killed 92 people and injured 153 others, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said.

“Raids by the Israeli enemy” caused the deaths of 40 people in southern Lebanon, 25 in the Baalbek-Hermel region (east), 23 in the Bekaa (east) and 4 in the Mount Lebanon region ( east-central), according to the ministry, and a total of 153 people were injured.

Emmanuel Macron estimated yesterday that it would be “a mistake” on the part of the Israeli Prime Minister to refuse the ceasefire proposed in Lebanon. “The proposal that has been made is a solid proposal. It was not made in the air,” said the French president during a press conference in Montreal with the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.

It was “prepared, negotiated with Prime Minister Netanyahu and his teams, both by the Americans and by us,” he stressed. In the event of refusal, Benjamin Netanyahu “would take responsibility for a regional escalation, obviously new civilian victims in Lebanon, but an escalation well beyond that, which no one would control,” he insisted.

Israel vowed Thursday to fight Lebanon’s Hezbollah “until victory,” rejecting an international call for a 21-day ceasefire. At the end of the afternoon, the Israeli army launched strikes on “Hezbollah terrorist targets in southern Lebanon”. It earlier said it attacked 75 Hezbollah military targets in southern and eastern Lebanon during Thursday.

Hello everyone. The 20 Minutes editorial team is once again mobilizing to provide you with all the information on the situation in the Middle East. For two days, an intense diplomatic sequence has been taking place at the UN in order to prevent Israel’s deadly strikes in Lebanon from plunging the region into total war.

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