French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne said Monday that Israeli “settler violence must stop” against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, following a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Under no circumstances can there be forced displacement of Palestinians, neither out of Gaza nor out of the West Bank,” Sejourne said during a Middle East tour aimed at securing a truce between Israel and militant group Hamas in Gaza.
The French minister denounced anti-Palestinian rhetoric and “even calls to commit war crimes” by Israeli officials, after some Netanyahu allies have appeared to endorse Jewish re-settlement of the Gaza Strip after the war.
Sejourne called for supporting the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority of president Mahmud Abbas.
“The future of the Gaza Strip is inseparable from the future of the West Bank, we must prepare for this future by supporting…
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