From Le Figaro with AFP
Published yesterday at 1:13 p.m., updated 1 hour ago
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At the end of a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of state reiterated his desire to restart the peace process with the Palestinians.
French President Emmanuel Macron proposed building “an international coalition” against Hamas in Jerusalem on Tuesday, October 24, and hopes to spur a “decisive restart” of the peace process with the Palestinians. “France is ready for the international coalition against Daesh, within which we are committed to our operations in Iraq and Syria, to also fight against Hamas,” Macron said at the end of a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“I suggest to our international partners that we can form a regional and international coalition to fight against the terrorist groups that threaten us all,” he stressed. “It is the interest of Israel and its security, as well as that of several of your neighbors who are threatened by the same or neighboring groups.” The fight must be merciless, but not without rules, because we are democracies fighting terrorists, democracies that therefore respect the laws of war and ensure humanitarian access to the population of Gaza, he added.
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While the situation on the border with Lebanon is very tense, Mr Macron also called on “Hezbollah, the Iranian regime and the Houthis in Yemen” not to “take the reckless risk of opening new fronts”. He also “drew everyone’s attention to the actions of a few against Palestinian civilians, whose violence threatens to set the West Bank ablaze.” After Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, the French head of state assured the Israeli population of “solidarity ” and “emotions” of France and estimated that the attack, with 30 French dead and nine hostages or missing, represented “a black page in our own history”. He expressed the “condolences of a grieving, friendly country.”
But “the Palestinian cause must be heard with reason,” he stressed. “Israel’s security cannot be sustainable without a decisive resumption of the political process with the Palestinians,” he stressed. Mr. Macron will discuss it with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Tuesday afternoon and with several leaders of the region on Wednesday “to very concretely advance the agenda that we have set for ourselves.”
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