2023-11-14 22:24:02
A total of 112 people – French people, their beneficiaries and agents of the French Institute – “were able to leave the Gaza Strip” and are “now safe in France”announced this Tuesday, November 14, the spokesperson for the Ministry of 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.
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“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.
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“France thanks the Egyptian authorities for all their help in the evacuation of our nationals, our agents and their families from the Gaza Strip”also declared Anne-Claire Legendre.
On October 27, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, mentioned the number of “170 French” in Gaza. “If we count our compatriots, their families but also the agents of France – we have a French cultural institute in Gaza – that’s around 170 people whose protection we want to ensure”she assured.
40 French people dead and eight missing in Hamas attacks
France is also continuing its efforts ” to reinforce “ its humanitarian aid to the population of Gaza, “in connection with the United Nations and our international partners”added the spokesperson for the Quai d’Orsay.
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“Those who ordered the October 7 massacre must be prosecuted”
Since the attack launched on its soil by Hamas commandos 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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