French President Emanuel Macron’s remarks criticising Israel’s actions in West Bank have drawn sharp reaction from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who termed it as ‘grotesque absurdity’.
“Hamas terrorists carry out attacks against Jews almost every day. They have murdered countless Israeli civilians in Judea and Samaria,” Netanyahu’s statement read as it used the Biblical name for the West Bank. “It is in the interest of all of us for vessels to be able to transit through the Strait..
Macron said that “Hamas has never struck in the West Bank,” a territory seized by Israel in 1967 that is home to the Palestinian Authority. “The grotesque absurdity of Emmanuel Macron’s statement is staggering,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement, AFP reported. Israel said that the victim, father of six Netanel Shukrun, also had French citizenship. The reopening of the Hormuz Strait is a priority, and the respect of international law is also a priority,” he said.
Netanyahu is likely to deliver a defiant address to the world body on Thursday. The statement also highlighted the death of a Israeli shooter in West bank in a shooting incident on Sunday — on the eve of Judaism’s holiest day of Yom Kippur.
