Visiting Cairo where he met his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, President Emmanuel Macron also indicated that a plane loaded with medical equipment would also arrive this Thursday, October 26 in Egypt.
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After Israel, the West Bank and Jordan, Emmanuel Macron continues his tour of the Middle East with a stop in Cairo. Two and a half weeks after the Hamas attack in Israel and the start of bombings on Gaza carried out in retaliation by the Jewish state, the French president wanted to refute the accusation made by leaders against the West, according to which “Palestinian lives are worth less than Israeli lives”.
“ France does not practice double standards. International law applies to everyone and France has always upheld universal values of humanism (…) All the victims deserve our compassion, our commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East », Said Emmanuel Macron during a joint press conference with Abdel Fatah al-Siss. To support his statements, the French president announced the arrival this Thursday in Cairo of a plane carrying first-aid medical equipment, as well as the departure from Toulon “ in the next 48 hours » of a ship of the national navy « to support Gaza hospitals » overloaded and deprived of medicines and for some of electricity.
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Emmanuel Macron also launched a new plea in favor of a political solution to this conflict, involving, according to him, a relaunch of the peace process with a view to achieving the creation of a Palestinian state and a normalization of relations between Israel. and Arab countries. “ We must act decisively today to finally achieve a two-state solution, with Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security », declared the head of state, whom his Egyptian counterpart warmly thanked for his initiative.
“ It is not because this idea is old that it has become obsolete (…) This political path is necessary because it gives a route to anger, which is not violence, which is recognition of a legitimate right, which allows it to be given a framework, that of political discussions. We need to », insisted Emmanuel Macron.
(With agencies)