Paris, March 24.- The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, today warned the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that any forced displacement of the Palestinian population in Rafah would constitute a war crime, according to a statement from the Elysee Palace.
The French Presidency reviewed the telephone conversation held this Sunday by the leaders, in which Macron reminded his interlocutor of the obligations arising from International Law.
Always in agreement with the source, the Head of State reiterated to Netanyahu his “firm opposition” to an offensive against Rafah, a city where more than 1.3 million Palestinians take refuge after the devastation caused by Israel in the last six months. in the Gaza Strip, in retaliation for the Hamas attacks of October 7.
The prime minister seems willing to order the offensive, despite the rejection of the international community, including the request of his ally the United States not to do so, due to the even greater disastrous humanitarian consequences that it would bring.
Netanyahu argues that his country would not be in a position to defeat Hamas without entering Rafah, in a conflict that is already blamed for the death of more than 32,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, many of them children.
In the conversation, Macron would have insisted on the need for an “immediate and lasting” ceasefire in Gaza.
According to the Elysée, he also expressed his rejection of Israel's most recent announcements in its colonization of the occupied West Bank, following the decision to confiscate 800 hectares of Palestinian land to build new settlements. (Text and photo: PL)
