French President Emmanuel Macron raised his voice to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, reiterating his “strong opposition” to the Rafah offensive and warning that “the forced displacement of the population is a war crime,” AFP reported.

In a phone call with the Israeli prime minister, the French president also “strongly condemned Israel’s recent statements on colonization,” according to a press release issued by the French president on Sunday, according to France Presse and Agerpres. On Friday, Israel announced the confiscation of 800 hectares of land in the West Bank.

Macron also announced his intention to present to the UN Security Council a draft resolution aimed at an “immediate and lasting ceasefire” in Gaza, after Moscow and Beijing opposed a similar US draft on Friday, calling the right “hypocritical”.

At the same time, the French president insisted that Israel “immediately and unconditionally open all existing crossing points in the Gaza Strip.”

Emmanuel Macron spoke by phone with Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Sunday, during which the two leaders discussed the “unjustified balance and humanitarian situation in Gaza,” according to the French president.

The leaders of France and Jordan called for an “immediate and lasting ceasefire”, “insisting that putting civilians at risk of starvation cannot be justified”, and spoke in favor of a two-state solution, “which involves the creation of a Palestinian state to include Gaza “.

Israel-Hamas: The head of German diplomacy calls on the parties to make concessions

Also, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock on Sunday called on Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas to make concessions in the talks being held in Qatar regarding the war in Gaza and agree on a truce.

The deaths in Gaza and the suffering of the more than 100 hostages held by Hamas are interconnected and the suffering must end for all, said Annalena Burbock, who is visiting Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian territories on Monday and Tuesday. , the sixth at the beginning of the war, the German press agency DPA reported, as quoted by Agerpres.

She also acknowledged that Israel must “open the border crossings to allow aid” to get more into Gaza, where the humanitarian situation is desperate, stressing that airdrops are not a sustainable solution.

Germany’s foreign minister said Germany “retains its responsibility for Israel’s security” and called on Hamas to lay down its weapons and promise no more terrorist attacks against Israel.

“But this goal cannot be achieved by purely military means, and military actions have their limits in international law,” she warned the Israeli government.

Annalena Burbok’s call for a humanitarian truce was met with criticism from her Israeli counterpart Israel Katz, with whom she is due to hold talks on Tuesday.

“We expect our friends to continue to support Israel in these difficult times and not weaken it in the face of the terrorist organization Hamas,” Katz wrote on the X Network, insisting that a humanitarian truce cannot be declared without a release. of Israeli hostages, and that Israel and its allies should “continue to work together to increase humanitarian aid to Gaza.”

In Cairo on Sunday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also asked Israel to “remove the last obstacles to aid” to the famine-stricken Gaza, once again calling on Israel and the Hamas group to “immediately cease fire”.

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