Macron\u2019s comments come after Israel resumed its bombardment of the Gaza Strip last month when a two-month-long truce came to an end and ceasefire talks broke down between Israel and the militant group Hamas. Israel has since halted the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s war in Gaza was triggered by Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7, 2023, assault against southern Israel during which 1,200 people were killed and 250 were taken hostage. The Hamas-run Gazan Health Ministry says more than 50,000 people in Gaza have died in the ensuing conflict. That figure includes both civilian and combatant fatalities.<\/p>\n
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict resonates deeply in France, which is home to Europe\u2019s largest Jewish and Muslim communities. Israel is also home to a large French-speaking community that has kept strong ties to France.<\/p>\n
France has always been in favor of a two-state solution but has resisted calls to recognize a Palestinian state, often arguing that Paris would only do so if it served the peace process.<\/p>\n
Macron\u2019s comments came at the end of a three-day trip to Egypt, during which he visited a hospital treating Palestinians in the city of El Arish, near the border with Gaza.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to believe in peace; today the conflict has intensified and it\u2019s terrible \u2026 Since March 2, there\u2019s nothing going in [to the Gaza Strip] \u2014 no water, no food, no medication, and none of the injured are coming out,\u201d Macron said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macron\u2019s comments come after Israel resumed its bombardment of the Gaza Strip last month when a two-month-long truce…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[6505,768,6178,321,34,2000,299,36,2207,837,43,1814,6506,771,6507],"class_list":{"0":"post-9556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-conflict","11":"tag-egypt","12":"tag-emmanuel-macron","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-hospitals","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-macron","19":"tag-palestine","20":"tag-saudi-arabia","21":"tag-war","22":"tag-water"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114316786067996390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}