France will summon “in the coming days“the Israeli ambassador in Paris to protest against the entry of the Israeli police”army” et “without permission” in a French national domain in Jerusalem, the Eléona, which the head of French diplomacy was preparing to visit.
“The Israeli ambassador to France will be summoned to the Ministry in the coming days“, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday. France condemns these actions.”with all the more vigor as they intervene in a context where it is doing everything possible to work towards the de-escalation of violence in the region“, adds the Quai d'Orsay in its press release.
The head of diplomacy Jean-Noël Barrot had earlier denounced a “unacceptable situation” and refused to enter the Eléona, while the Israeli police briefly arrested two French gendarmes on the spot, according to an AFP journalist.
The Eleona, within which there is a Benedictine monastery, is located on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian part of the city occupied and annexed by Israel since 1967.
Built on the so-called Pater cave, where Christ is said to have taught the Pater to his disciples, it is one of the four French national domains in and near Jerusalem, with the Tomb of the Kings, the Basilica of Saint Anne and the old crusader commandery. of Abu Gosh with their Romanesque churches.
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