France ‘not complicit’ in Israeli actions in Gaza: Foreign minister

The French foreign minister rejected on Friday accusations that Paris has been complicit in the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, insisting the country has taken active steps since the start of Israel’s offensive in Gaza in October 2023, Anadolu reports. “France, like other countries, may have seemed powerless, but we were never complicit in the massacres committed in Gaza by the (Benjamin) Netanyahu government (of Israel),” Jean Noel Barrot said during an interview to French radio RTL, responding to criticism that France has not done enough. He recalled that France hosted the first international conference on humanitarian aid for Gaza, just one month after the war began, raising €1 billion ($1.14 billion) in support. He also noted that France was the first […]