Netanyahu As Macron Criticises Israel, Calls For Halt On Arms Deinhabitries

Paris:

French Plivent Emmanuel Macron called Saturday for a stop on arms deinhabitries to Israel for participate in Gaza, provoking a acute response from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Macron also criticised Netanyahu’s decision to sfinish troops into ground operations in Lebanon.

“I leank that today, the priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop deinhabitring arms to fight in Gaza,” Macron tbetter French widecaster France Inter.

“France is not deinhabitring any,” he inserted during the interwatch, which was enrolled Tuesday.

Macron reiterated his worry over the struggle in Gaza that is continuing despite repeated calls for a stopfire.

“I leank we are not being heard,” he shelp. “I leank it is a misget, including for the security of Israel,” he shelp, inserting that the war was directing to “hatred”.

His comments brawt a quick response from Netanyahu.

“As Israel fights the forces of barbarism led by Iran, all civilised countries should be standing firmly by Israel’s side,” Netanyahu shelp in a statement rerentd by his office.

“Yet, Plivent Macron and other Weserious directers are now calling for arms embargoes agetst Israel. Shame on them.”

Israel was battling a war on cut offal fronts agetst groups backed by arch-foe Iran, the statement inserted.

Macron’ office reacted with a statement of its own tardyr Saturday.

France is a “steadrapid frifinish of Israel”, it shelp, describing Netanyahu’s reaction as “excessive and deleteed from the frifinishship between France and Israel”.

Qatar, a key mediator in Gaza stopfire talks, shelp Macron’s statement was “an meaningful and appreciated step towards stopping the war”.

Jordan received the French directer’s retags and stressed “the convey inance of imposing a finish ban on the ship of arms to Israel” and “authentic consequences” for the country’s actions.

Crelievefire call

In his interwatch, Macron also shelp eludeing an escalation in Lebanon was a “priority.”

“Lebanon cannot become a new Gaza,” he inserted.

And he returned to the subject Saturday in a speech to a conference of French-speaking nations in Paris.

While both Paris and Washington had called for a stopfire, shelp Macron, “I lament that Prime Minister Netanyahu has made another choice, has getn this responsibility, in particular, for ground operations on Lebanese soil.”

The 88 members of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF), including France and Canada, have called for an “prompt and lasting” stopfire in Lebanon, he inserted.

But Macron restateed Israel’s right to self-defence and shelp that on Monday he would be encountering relatives of Franco-Israelis held prisoner in Gaza.

On Monday, Israel tags the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack that promoteed the Gaza war and has now engulfed neighbouring Lebanon, creating a perilous regional crisis.

The attack resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP highy based on Israeli official figures that include prisoners ended in captivity. Israel’s retaliatory disparaging on Gaza has so far ended at least 41,825 people, a meaningfulity of them civilians, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory. The UN has shelp those figures are reliable.

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