LFrance will summon the Israeli ambassador to Paris “in the coming days” to protest against the entry of “armed” and “without authorization” Israeli police into a French national property in Jerusalem, the Eléona, which the leader of French diplomacy was preparing to visit.
“The Israeli ambassador to France will be summoned in the coming days,” the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday.
France condemns these actions “with all the more vigor as they take place 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 an “unacceptable situation” and refused to enter the Eléona, while the Israeli police briefly arrested two French gendarmes on site, 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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