2023-11-14 23:53:00
A total of 112 people – French people, their dependents and agents of the French Institute – “were able to leave the Gaza Strip” and are “now safe in France”, the ministry spokesperson announced on Tuesday. Foreign Affairs. “For five weeks, France has been fully mobilized to allow all our compatriots, our agents, as well as their families who wish to leave the Gaza Strip,” underlined Anne-Claire Legendre in a press release.
“This assessment marks the end of a first phase of our evacuation operations, which enabled almost all of our compatriots wishing to leave Gaza to do so,” she added. These people were evacuated via the Rafah border post with Egypt. “France thanks the Egyptian authorities for all their help in the evacuation of our nationals, our agents and their families from the Gaza Strip,” Anne-Claire Legendre also declared. France is also continuing its efforts “to strengthen” its humanitarian aid to the population of Gaza, “in conjunction with the United Nations and our international partners,” she added.
40 French people died
Since the Hamas terrorist attack launched on its soil on October 7, Israel has relentlessly struck the Gaza Strip and has been carrying out a ground operation there since October 27 to “annihilate” the Islamist movement, in power in the besieged Palestinian territory. Israeli bombings killed 11,320 people, mostly civilians, including 4,650 children, according to the Hamas health ministry.
On the Israeli side, around 1,200 people were killed, according to the authorities, the vast majority civilians on the day of the attack of a scale and violence never seen since the creation of Israel in 1948. In total, 40 French people died in attacks and eight others are still missing, some of whom are hostages of Hamas.
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