Macron tells Abbas that the Hamas attack was "a tragedy for the Israelis, but also for the Palestinians"

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, lamented this Tuesday in Ramallah before the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, the “suffering” of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip due to the “spiral of violence” after the “terrorist attacks” of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Israel.

“I want to express here all my condolences and those of the French people for all the victims of the spiral of violence caused by Hamas' terrorist attacks,” he said at a press conference with Abbas, with whom he met this afternoon.

Macron has assured that “the Hamas terrorist attack was a tragedy for the Israelis”, but also “a catastrophe for the Palestinians” and that “nothing can justify” the suffering of the population in Gaza. “We must stop the aggression,” he said, adding that the Islamist movement “does not represent the Palestinian people.”

Macron has thus stressed that the life of a civilian is worth the same as that of another, regardless of their nationality, and has indicated that protecting the population “everywhere is a moral imperative, as well as an obligation under Humanitarian Law.” .

The French president has thus reiterated that “nothing justifies terrorist violence” and recalled that Abbas was with France in 2015 after the terrorist attacks against the satirical magazine 'Charlie Hebdo' and the kosher supermarket.

“I also want to remember here the terrible experience experienced by the hostages in Gaza. “We are actively working to obtain the release of the hostages, nine of whom are French,” Macron said.