2023-10-24 07:48:45
Tel Aviv: Various heads of state have visited Israel in the last two weeks in support of Israel’s bloody airstrikes in Gaza. French President Emmanuel Macron is the latest foreign leader to show solidarity with Israel. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will visit Israel this week.
World leaders who have visited Israel since October 7, when the attacks intensified:
Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
US President Joe Biden
Macron arrived in Tel Aviv two weeks following the attack. He will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the meeting, Macron will inform Netanyahu that he will fully support Israel. Macron will also meet Israeli President Isaac Herzog and senior leaders Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited Israel and met with President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After the attack by Hamas, Sunak called for action to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza and said that London supports Israel’s right to defend itself. Netanyahu’s response was that it was a world war once morest the Nazis. Netanyahu thanked the British Prime Minister who came to Israel to console him. Sunak also said that Israel has the right to retaliate once morest Hamas. He then returned following visiting Saudi Arabia.
US President Joe Biden met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel and expressed his support and said ‘I don’t believe you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. He also declared that I am a Zionist. Biden, who is a Catholic, has previously made statements showing that he has given his heart to Israel.
Countries that sent medicine and food to Gaza:
At least nine planes with help from India, Turkey, UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Tunisia and Kuwait landed at Al Arish International Airport in Egypt’s Sinai Province. Rwanda sent 16 tons of aid. EU aid has tripled. Meanwhile, some European Union countries, including Germany, Denmark and Sweden, suspended aid to Gaza following October 7 and sent 6.5 tonnes of medical supplies, 32 tonnes of disaster relief materials, life-saving medicines, surgical supplies, tents, sleeping bags and tarpaulins in an Indian Air Force C-17 aircraft.
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