PARIS: President Emmanuel Macron strongly rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent criticism over rising antisemitism in France and warned the issue should not be “weaponised”, in an letter to the Israeli leader published Tuesday.
“These accusations of inaction in the face of a scourge that we are fighting with everything in our power are unacceptable and are an offence to France as a whole,” Macron wrote, in a letter published in several newspapers.
Earlier on Monday, Macron said that Israeli strikes on Naseer Hospital in Gaza that caused the deaths of civilians and journalists were “intolerable”.
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