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Macron announces international conference on Lebanon in France for October 24
France plans to hold an international conference on Lebanon on October 24, French President Emmanuel Macron said at a press conference on the first day of the EU summit.
According to him, the issue will be about "providing humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands of people forced to leave their homes due to the Israeli operation."
The French leader also noted his differences with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to Macron, his country supports the Jewish state, but this does not deprive him of the right to disagree with the head of the Israeli government.
Earlier, Le Parisien newspaper, citing sources, reported that Prime Minister Macron said at a closed ministerial meeting that Prime Minister Netanyahu should remember the circumstances of the founding of the Jewish state based on UN resolutions. The newspaper notes that the president made these statements in the context of the ongoing Israeli operation against the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah at a temporary UN military base in Lebanon and the summoning of the Israeli ambassador to the French Foreign Ministry. Because of the attack on peacekeepers. Netanyahu later accused Macron of rudeness.