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Sunday, December 17, 2023
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Sunday, December 17, 2023
French FM in Israel to meet hostage families, press for ‘immediate and durable’ truce
French Foreign Affairs Minister Catherine Colonna leaves the weekly cabinet meeting at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris on October 12, 2022. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna arrives in Israel, where she is set to press for an “immediate and durable” truce in the war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Colonna will meet with Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in Tel Aviv.
Colonna arrives a day after Paris condemned an Israeli strike in Gaza that killed a French foreign ministry employee, demanding that “light be shed” on the circumstances.
Colonna is also due to meet the families of French hostages still held in Gaza and to call for an “immediate and durable new humanitarian truce,” according to a foreign ministry statement.
