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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

France

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on March 2, 2025, after Israel suspended the entry of supplies into the Palestinian enclave. (AFP)
March 6, 2025, 6:43 am
France, Germany and UK call on Israel to ensure ‘unhindered’ aid flow to Gaza
Hitting back, Foreign Ministry says Hamas is using supplies to rebuild and that ‘the only humanitarian suffering in Gaza is that of the Israeli hostages’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar meets with Jewish and pro-Israel leaders in Brussels, February 25, 2025. (Shalev Man/Foreign Ministry)
February 28, 2025, 12:14 pm
Israel decides to establish formal ties with trio of European far-right parties 
FM Sa’ar says opening of dialogue with Sweden Democrats, France’s National Rally, Spain’s Vox is based on their present actions, not antisemitic roots: ‘I didn’t see reason not to’
By Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg
This photograph shows firefighter (L) and police vehicles near the site of a bladed weapon attack where a man is suspected of killing one person and wounding two municipal police officers in Mulhouse, eastern France on February 22, 2025. (Sebastien Bozon/AFP)
February 23, 2025, 4:59 pm
French authorities arrest four after terror stabbing in country’s east
Portuguese man killed in Saturday attack in city of Mulhouse; France tried 10 times to expel main suspect in Islamic extremist attack to Algeria
By AP
French municipal police officers work to collect evidence at the site of a bladed weapon attack where a man is suspected of killing one person and wounding two municipal police officers in Mulhouse, eastern France on February 22, 2025. (Sebastien Bozon/AFP)
February 22, 2025, 11:37 pm
One dead, several police wounded in ‘Islamist’ stabbing attack in France
French authorities had tried 10 times to deport Algerian-born suspect in attack, in city of Mulhouse, but home country refused to accept him, says French interior minister
By Sebastien BOZO, Antoine POLLEZ and Jurgen HECKER
French policemen escort Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (C), a Lebanese terrorist sentenced to life in prison for the murder of two diplomats, one American and the other Israeli, as Abdallah leaves Pau's Courthouse, southwestern France, on February 18, 2010. (Jean-Louis Duzert / AFP)
February 20, 2025, 8:19 pm
French court postpones decision on freeing Lebanese terrorist who killed diplomats
Court says Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed in 1982 for murdering US and Israeli diplomats, hasn’t shown proof he’s compensated his victims’ families, amid repeated refusals to pay
By AFP
The interior of a synagogue in Rouen, France, that a man is suspected of having set on fire, May 17, 2024. The man was shot dead by French police. (AP Photo)
January 23, 2025, 6:39 am
Antisemitic acts remain at ‘historic’ high in France, local Jewish group reports
CRIF say France saw almost 1,600 antisemitic acts in 2024, among them multiple synagogue arsons, rape of 12-year-old girl; figure is down from 2023, but higher than previous years
By AFP and ToI Staff
Relatives and friends of Israelis held hostage by Hamas in Gaza react to news of a ceasefire-hostage deal as they take part in a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
January 16, 2025, 12:00 am
World leaders welcome hostage-ceasefire deal, express hope it will endure
Biden and Trump both fete accomplishment, as Europe calls for a path toward long-term solution and the UN chief hopes for expanded aid to the Strip
By ToI Staff
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi at a press conference in Tehran, Iran, December 30, 2024. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
January 14, 2025, 10:49 pm
Iran’s FM says European countries appear serious about reviving nuclear deal
Tehran has held two rounds of talks with Britain, Germany, France concerning a deal in last two months, ahead of Trump’s return to White House next week
By AFP and ToI Staff
France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) shakes hands with Lebanon's former prime minister Najib Mikati, before their meeting at The Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, October 23, 2024. (Ludovic Marin / AFP)
January 14, 2025, 10:01 pm
France’s Macron to visit Lebanon after new president elected
French leader’s office says he plans to mark his country’s ‘unwavering commitment’ to Lebanon, work on continued implementation of Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal
By AFP
An employee holds a poster bearing portraits of (From L) North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with a slogan which reads in French "Don't forget to sort the waste" after removing it from a city bus in Béziers, southern France on January 9, 2025. (Sylvain Thomas/AFP)
January 10, 2025, 3:16 am
French mayor scraps recycling ads showing Iran’s Khamenei
Tehran had blasted ‘offensive’ poster of supreme leader alongside Putin and North Korea’s Kim, under the slogan ‘don’t forget to sort the trash’
By AFP
Former far-right National Front party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen clenches his fist at the statue of Joan of Arc, in Paris, May 1, 2017. (Kamil Zihnioglu/AP)
January 7, 2025, 3:59 pm
French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, anti-immigrant firebrand, dies at 96
Polarizing figure, father of politician Marine Le Pen, belittled Holocaust gas chambers as ‘a detail in World War II history,’ railed against migrants and multiculturalism
By Thomas Adamson, Sylvie Corbet and Elaine Ganley
France's Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot delivers a speech during the annual conference of French ambassadors at the International Conference Centre of the French Foreign Affairs ministry in Paris on January 6, 2025. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
January 7, 2025, 1:13 pm
France asks citizens to avoid Iran until French ‘hostages’ released
According to Paris, Tehran is unjustly detaining three French nationals, which FM says ‘is quite simply unacceptable’
By AFP
People celebrate on New Year's Eve at Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, December 31, 2024. (AP/Leo Correa)
January 3, 2025, 11:49 am
‘New political beginning’: German, French FMs to meet with nascent Syrian regime
First top level EU diplomats to visit Damascus since fall of Assad regime; German FM says coming with ‘outstretched hand’ as well as ‘clear expectations’ for new government
By Agencies
The Iranian flag outside the IAEA headquarters during the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on November 20, 2024. (Joe Klamar/AFP)
December 18, 2024, 9:56 am
UK, France, Germany: No ‘credible civilian’ basis for Iran’s growing uranium stash
European trio sounds alarm over Tehran’s ‘capability to rapidly produce sufficient fissile material for multiple nuclear weapons,’ says it must ‘reverse its nuclear escalation’
By AFP and ToI Staff
France's newly appointed Prime Minister Francois Bayrou (R), flanked by outgoing Prime Minister Michel Barnier, during the handover ceremony at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, France on December 13, 2024. (Thomas Samson/AFP)
December 13, 2024, 9:54 pm
Macron names centrist ally Bayrou as France’s fourth prime minister of 2024
Amid months of political crisis, Bayrou becomes 6th prime minister under French president’s mandate; Macron had apparently been leaning toward naming defense minister to role
By Francesco FONTEMAGGI, Stuart Williams and Anna SMOLCHENKO
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