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From the Liveblog of
Friday, October 11, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Friday, October 11, 2024
Macron says ending arms exports to Israel, only way to stop Gaza, Lebanon fighting
France's President Emmanuel Macron looks on during a press conference after the MED9 Summit in the Cypriot city of Paphos on October 11, 2024. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)
French President Emmanuel Macron doubles down on his call for an arms embargo on Israel, saying that “stopping the export of weapons” used in Gaza and Lebanon was the only way to end fighting there.
“We all know it. It’s the unique lever that would end it,” Macron says at a summit of European and Mediterranean leaders in Cyprus.
Macron also accuses Israel of deliberately targeting UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.
He says it was “absolutely unacceptable” that UN peacekeepers in Lebanon are “deliberately targeted” by Israeli forces.
Israel says troops fired at an “immediate threat” to troops near a UN post, leading to the wounding of two peacekeepers.
