France on Friday January 27 urged Israel and the Palestinians toto refrain from fueling the escalation“, after strikes by the Israeli army on the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian micro-territory, themselves occurring the day after a deadly Israeli raid.
“France expresses its deep concern at the risk of escalation, including in the Gaza Strip, following an operation carried out by the Israeli army yesterday in the Jenin camp in the West Bank, which several reports indicate would have caused civilian deaths“, reacted Anne-Claire Legendre, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Protection of civilians
For the month of January alone, the violence in the West Bank caused the death of 30 Palestinians, she lamented, recalling France’s attachment to respect for international humanitarian law and “to the imperative of protecting civilians in the occupied territories which falls to Israel.
Paris “calls on all parties to exercise restraint and refrain from fueling escalation», the wharf spokeswoman added, noting the urgency to restore the prospect of a two-state solution, living side by side in peace and security“. France considers that it is “the only solution capable of guaranteeing Israelis and Palestinians a just and lasting peace“.
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Israel, which holds Hamas in power in Gaza responsible for all the firing of projectiles from this territory, announced on Friday that it had carried out at least two series of night strikes there against infrastructures of the Islamist movement, in the north and in the south. center.
The rocket fire, mostly intercepted by Israel’s air defense system, was not claimed, but Palestinian armed groups had promised to respond to Thursday morning’s Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the north of the West Bank, in which nine Palestinians were killed.
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