Macron accuses Netanyahu of ‘unacceptable’ blockade of Gaza aid: ‘Shameful’

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French President Emmanuel Macron said Israel’s blocking of humanitarian aid to Gaza is “unacceptable” and “shameful” in comments that were quickly denounced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“It’s terrible. … There’s no water. There are no medicines. They can no longer evacuate the injured,” Macron said in an interview on the French television channel TF1. “I say it forcefully, what the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is doing today is unacceptable.”

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