This Saturday (5), the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, spoke out in favor of interrupting the supply of weapons to Israel that could be used to attack the Gaza Strip and stated that “you cannot fight terrorism by sacrificing the civilian population ”.
“I think that, today, the priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop sending weapons (to Israel) to carry out the fighting in Gaza. France does not do that,” said Macron, in an interview broadcast on radio France Inter. Macron did not name the countries that should stop selling weapons to the State of Israel, but the United States appears, by far, as the main supplier.
The French president warned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignored part of the international community. “I think we are not being heard. I have already told Prime Minister Netanyahu again and I think it is a mistake, a mistake also for Israel’s own security, because we see in public opinions in the region a resentment that is being born”, he noted.
The president considered that the objective is to “avoid an escalation” in the region and insisted again that “Lebanon cannot become a new Gaza”.
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