The exclusion of humanitarian aid in Gaza is a “scandal”, the French president said Emmanuel Macronagain appealing for “ceasefire”, “release of hostages” and “re -opening the way for the transport of humanitarian aid” to the besieged Palestinian enclave.
France is “vigilant” and “standing by all its citizens when they are in danger,” added Emmanuel Macron, reacting to the intervention by the Israeli army on the sailboat and his arrest, as the ship carried the shipwalling activists.
France “passed all the messages” to Israel in order to “protect” these activists “to secure” and “be able to return to French territory,” he assured.