Defense Minister Israel Katz fires back at French President Emmanuel Macron, after the French leader called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip “shameful” and hinted that the EU should consider sanctions.
“We remember well what happened to Jews in France when they couldn’t defend themselves. President Macron should not lecture us on morality,” Katz says in a statement.
Macron, speaking yesterday in an interview with TF1 television, accused Netanyahu of blocking aid into the Strip and warned that Europe may reconsider its cooperation agreements with Israel. “My job is to do everything I can to make it stop,” Macron said.
Katz responds that “it is expected that someone who considers himself a friend of Israel would stand by Israel in its war against the murderous terrorist organization Hamas and the Iranian axis of evil.”
“The IDF operates with the highest level of morality under extremely difficult and complex circumstances — certainly more than anything France has done in its past wars,” he adds.
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