2023-11-12 05:55:00
A scathing response. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted this Saturday to the comments of Emmanuel Macron, who gave an interview to the BBC, broadcast Friday evening, in which the French president “urges Israel to stop” the bombings killing civilians in Gaza. “The responsibility for any harm done to civilians lies with Hamas,” Netanyahu defended during a televised address this Saturday from Defense HQ in Tel Aviv.
Statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron:
“The responsibility for any harm to civilians lies with Hamas – ISIS and not with Israel.
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) November 10, 2023
Macron “made a serious error on a factual and moral level”, affirmed the Israeli Prime Minister, assuring that “it is not Israel which is preventing the evacuation of civilians, but Hamas”, an armed terrorist group. which started the war with the massacres of October 7 and which uses civilians as “human shields”.
“We must not forget that Israel entered the war due to the brutal murder of hundreds of Israelis by this terrorist organization and the taking hostage of more than 200 Israelis,” underlined “Bibi”, who also recalled that Macron had done “good things”, referring to his trip to the Hebrew State and the sending of a “humanitarian ship”.
A curt response
In his interview with the English television channel, Macron deplored the fact that babies, women and the elderly were “bombed and killed. » There is “no justification” and “no legitimacy for this.” We therefore urge Israel to stop,” he stressed. This “reaction in the fight against terrorism, because it is led by a democracy, must be consistent with the international rules of war and international humanitarian law”, implored the French president on Friday, who reveals this Saturday evening in our columns a letter to the French on anti-Semitism.
“This is a war that could not be more justified. We must establish a moral line: we cannot offer immunity to terrorists,” Netanyahu replied. “We are doing everything to limit uninvolved civilian casualties, but we will not give Hamas authorization to kill our population without there being a response on our part,” concluded the Prime Minister, adding that he had “not no need for these moral lessons.”
The Hamas health ministry announced that 11,078 people, including 4,506 children, had been killed in Israeli bombardments of the Gaza Strip since the start of the war. The Hamas attack left around 1,200 dead on the Israeli side, mostly civilians killed on October 7, and 42 soldiers have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israeli ground operations, according to official Israeli figures. The Israeli military estimates that some 240 people were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip during the Hamas attack.
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