French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said that the European Union has “harsh discussions” with Israel to help accelerate humanitarian and financial assistance to the devastated Gaza war.
The Israeli government has accepted “the first commitments that have not yet been met,” Barrot said on Sunday on CBS Face The Nation. “We expect the Israeli government to stop the activities of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which caused a blood bath in the humanitarian lines of help in Gaza.”
Barrot spoke of a US supported foundation, which Israel set up on the divine UN network in Gaza. This operation was persecuted by charges, including the UN, that Palestinian applicants for help were shot and killed near distribution points – the incidents for which the agency and Israel deny responsibility.
The tension increased after President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that France would recognize the Palestinian state in September. This caused resistance from the US and Israel, who claims that his offensive in Gaza is necessary to overthrow and disarm the Palestinian militant Hamas group, which the US and the European Union determined by the terrorist organization.
On Sunday, the Israeli army suspended some military operations against Hamas to facilitate the movement of the UN convoys to Gaza and for the first time since March restored electricity to the desalination plant.
Macron’s step complements President Donald Trump’s strategy for the region, Barrot said. He argued that the recognition of Palestinian statehood would create conditions for ending hostility, release of Israeli hostages, and bringing Arab countries to call on Hamas to disarm.
France and Saudi officials are expected to lead a conference on the discussion of Palestinian statehood in New York this week, he said.
France and the EU expect the Israeli government to “pay 2 billion euros owned by Palestinian authority and raise financial blocking that will now prevent Palestinian authority to implement their most basic missions,” Barrot said.
He also called for Israel to leave his latest plan to set up another 3,400 housing units in the West Bank and said that he would divide the occupied Palestinian territory into two and prevent the emergence of a viable Palestinian state.
France would be the first group of seven countries to recognize Palestine as a state. Other Western countries recognized by Palestine include Spain, Ireland and Norway.
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