The French Foreign Minister has conducted a thorough interview detailing his country’s stance on the Israeli war on Gaza.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is creating indefensible and unjustifiable situations for which the Israelis are accountable, French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne stated on Saturday.
French newspaper Le Monde conducted an interview with Sejourne, who answered key questions on the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the war in Ukraine.
Sejourne stressed that “France must be on the right side of history” when it comes to the war in Ukraine and called for an “urgent” and “lasting” ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
The Minister said that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has been “catastrophic” for the past few months, adding that “Israel” is creating “indefensible and unjustifiable situations” in the besieged territory which it has “to answer” to.
According to the top diplomat, French authorities urged Israeli authorities to “increase the number of crossing points (into the Gaza Strip) and humanitarian trucks,” however, these calls “have gone unanswered.”
“The responsibility for blocking this aid clearly lies with Israelis,” he told Le Monde.
France cannot escape double standards practice
Despite the fact that Israeli occupation forces killed more than 30,000 Palestinians, the majority of which are women and children, Sejourne insisted on “Israel’s right to defend itself,” but he did say that France has to be “clear about the abuses in Gaza.”
Claiming that he wants to put an end “to the idea of double standards,” which the West is accused of, Sejourne refused to title Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip as acts of genocide against the Palestinian people. He said that such a judgment is up to the International Court of Justice to decide.
Further highlighting the shakiness of France’s humanitarian stance, the French Foreign Minister did admit that “Israel” did not abide by the orders of the ICJ’s latest orders, which include taking all possible action to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Discussing a possible Israeli invasion into the small city of Rafah, which hosts more than 1.4 million Palestinians, Sejourne said, “Today, we’re at an impasse on Rafah, and a military operation of the kind the Israelis have in mind would be a new humanitarian disaster; we’re doing everything we can to avoid it.”
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source: AlMayadeen