A new Gaza-related spat is now raging between the leaders of France and Israel, amid new reports that famine is hitting the Palestinian population, which is said to be impacting 500,000 people.
French President Emmanuel Macron has called the military policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “shameful” and “unacceptable” in a fresh interview with a national broadcaster.
“What the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is doing is unacceptable,” Macron began in a Gaza segment of the interview. “There is no water, no medicine, the wounded cannot get out, the doctors cannot get in. What he is doing is shameful,” he continued.
He then interestingly appeared to leverage recent reports saying that Trump-Netanyahu relations have reached a low point, and that the White House is fed up with Bib.
“We need the United States. President Trump has the levers. I have had tough words with Prime Minister Netanyahu. I got angry, but they [Israel] don’t depend on us, they depend on American weapons,” Macron said.
Macron here seemed to be calling on Washington to essentially put the Netanyahu government in its place, as Trump has sidelined Tel Aviv on everything from the…
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