2023-10-24 13:05:20
“I will have the opportunity to go to Ramallah [en Cisjordanie] at the end of the day”, declared Emmanuel Macron, during a press conference alongside the Israeli Prime Minister, Tuesday October 24. According to information from franceinfo, he will meet Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, with whom he will make a joint statement. The French president will go to Amman (Jordan) in the evening to see “probably” King Abdullah II and “maybe” other leaders, announced the Elysée. Follow our live stream.
“CFrance’s condolences to the Israeli people. Late Tuesday morning, the French president spoke with Benjamin Netanyahu. He assured that France shared this “terrible ordeal”while Hamas fighters still hold hostages. “We are democracies once morest terrorists”, added Emmanuel Macron. The latter also defended “the Palestinian cause”.
“The first objective is the release of the hostages”. Emmanuel Macron met his Israeli counterpart, Isaac Herzog, in Jerusalem earlier on Tuesday morning. “We must organize targeted operations once morest terrorists”, did he declare. In the morning, he recalled on X (formerly Twitter) that thirty “compatriots” French “were murdered on October 7” and “Nine others are still missing or held hostage.”
A meeting with families of victims. Upon his arrival, the president had previously met around thirty French people, in the lounges of Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, with 18 families of victims represented. Relatives of Mia Shem, this Franco-Israeli woman held hostage and presented in a video broadcast on October 16 by Hamas, were notably present.
Two hostages released by Hamas. These two women, of Israeli nationality, are from Kibbutz Nir Oz, according to the Israeli Prime Minister’s office which gave their identities: Yocheved Lifschitz, 85 years old, and Nourit Kuper, 79 years old. Their husbands are still detained. “I went through hell, I didn’t think or know that I would find myself in this situation”, declared the first to the press. During captivity, “they made sure we didn’t need anything. They treated us well”, she emphasized. Around 220 Israeli, foreign or binational hostages were identified by Israel, taken by men of the Palestinian Islamist movement in the Gaza Strip.
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