French President Emmanuel Macron increased pressure on Prime Minister Netanyahu, repeating his firm opposition to an Israeli attack on Rafah. Macron warned that "the forced transfer of the population constitutes a war crime."
During a telephone conversation between Netanyahu and Macron, the French leader strongly condemned the latest Israeli announcements regarding an extension of 800 dunams of new settlements as a reply to the recent spade of terror attacks.
Macron sharpened the tone and announced his intention to bring to the UN Security Council a proposed resolution calling for an "immediate and lasting ceasefire in Gaza."
The French president even insisted that Israel open "without delay and without conditions all existing land crossing points to the Gaza Strip" and this "because of the famine and the humanitarian catastrophe that exists in Gaza."
Macron also spoke by phone yesterday (Sunday) with King Abdullah II of Jordan. The two discussed the "unjustified humanitarian situation in Gaza" and called for an immediate and lasting ceasefire, also insisting "that subjecting civilians to the risk of starvation is not justified."
The two reiterated the need for a two-state solution, which, according to them is, "the only one capable of responding to the legitimate aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians for peace and security, and which involves the creation of a Palestinian state including Gaza."