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Saturday, December 2, 2023
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Saturday, December 2, 2023
Macron says ‘total destruction of Hamas’ would take 10 years of war
France's President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a press conference at the COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai on December 2, 2023. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)
French President Emmanuel Macron warns that Israel’s aim of eliminating the Palestinian terror group Hamas risked unleashing a decade of war.
Achieving the “total destruction of Hamas” would mean “the war will last 10 years,” Macron said at a press conference on the sidelines of the UN’s COP28 climate talks in Dubai.
“So this objective must be clarified,” he adds
