France strongly announced its call for an immediate truce with the aim of achieving an immediate ceasefire. It expressed its “deep” concern following the Israeli authorities’ announcement of the intensification and prolongation of attacks on the Gaza Strip.
According to a statement by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday, Tuesday: Systematic targeted raids in the region recently resulted in the deaths of many civilians.
The Ministry renewed its call for an “immediate humanitarian truce leading to a ceasefire.”
She called for adherence to international humanitarian law, which stipulates the necessity of protecting civilians at any time and place.
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs renewed its call on Israel to take effective measures to protect the lives of civilians in the Gaza Strip, in addition to facilitating the transfer of aid to all areas of the Strip.
The French Foreign Ministry praised the Security Council’s adoption of Resolution No. 2720, noting that this resolution is an affirmation of the urgent need to provide more humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza.
On December 23, the UN Security Council ratified Resolution No. 2720, which calls for immediate steps to be taken to allow the provision of humanitarian aid to the Strip, and to create conditions for achieving an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian resistance factions.
It is noteworthy that at the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza, and immediately after the announcement of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation launched by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on the Gaza Strip, President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, and Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna rushed to To denounce the “terrorist acts committed by Hamas fighters,” they said, and to affirm absolute support for Israel and what they described as “its legitimate right to self-defense.”
Since October 7, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, which as of Tuesday resulted in the death of 20,915 Palestinians and the injury of 54,918 others, most of them children and women. This war also caused massive destruction of infrastructure and created an “unprecedented humanitarian disaster.”