French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Israel’s right to security ‘’does not justify massacres of civilians’’ in Gaza as he stressed that Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip , “clearly carries an overwhelming responsibility” for the conflict.
In a statement, Fabius called for a political solution to be “imposed” by the international community.
“How many more deaths will it take to stop what must be called the carnage in Gaza?” Fabius said in a statement.
“The tradition of friendship between Israel and France is an old one and Israel’s right to security is total, but this right does not justify the killing of children and the massacre of civilians.”
The statement comes amid global outrage over an Israeli strike next to a UN school on Sunday that Palestinian sources claim killed ten people, among them civilians who had been seeking refuge from the violence.
The IDF issued a statement saying that forces had targeted three Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists on board a motorcycle in the vicinity of an UNRWA school in Rafah, and added that “the IDF is reviewing the consequences of this strike.”