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Saturday, October 5, 2024
Macron calls to stop sending Israel weapons that can be used in Gaza fighting

French President Emmanuel Macron attends the opening session of the 19th Summit of the Francophonie at the Grand Palais in Paris, on October 5, 2024. (Ludovic Marin/Pool/AFP)
French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday urges a halt to arms deliveries to Israel, calling for “a political solution” in the nearly yearlong Gaza war sparked by Hamas’s October 7 attack.
“I think that today, the priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop delivering weapons to fight in Gaza,” Macron tells broadcaster France Inter, adding that France is not sending any arms to Israel.