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Emmanuel Macron calls on Israel to cease its operations in Rafah
Emmanuel Macron calls on Israel to cease its operations in Rafah
(FRANCEINFO)
The French president, on a state visit across the Rhine, repeated his call for a ceasefire, insisting on the need for a “political response”.
Emmanuel Macron remains on his line. Less than two days after the deadly bombing of a displaced persons camp in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, the French president called on Tuesday, May 28, Israel and its army not to continue its ground assault and its bombings.
“We recognized Israel’s right to defend itself.”, recalled the Head of State, in reference to the “Iron Swords” operation launched in reaction to the October 7 attacks perpetrated by Hamas on Israeli territory. But “the answer cannot be a land operation that continues [à Rafah]“declared Emmanuel Macron from Münster, last stop of his state visit to Germany.
France supports Algeria’s request for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, which must take place on Tuesday evening, in order to “respond to the humanitarian emergency and provide answers in terms of a ceasefire”said Emmanuel Macron. “Israeli operations must stop in Rafah”he demanded, while nearly a million war-displaced people once again took to the road to flee this city, according to a report given Tuesday by the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA).
