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Macron sends condolences to Herzog over US shooting
Nava Freiberg is The Times of Israel's deputy diplomatic correspondent.
French President Emmanuel Macron says he has expressed to President Isaac Herzog his condolences for the families of the two Israeli embassy staffers killed in the shooting attack in the US capital.
“Two members of the Israeli embassy in Washington lost their lives in an antisemitic attack in front of the Jewish Museum,” writes Macron in a French post on X.
“To President [Isaac Herzog], I have conveyed our thoughts for the families and loved ones of the victims,” he says.
Earlier this morning, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot condemned the attack as “an abhorrent act of antisemitic barbarity,” adding that “nothing can justify such violence.”
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