France will convene “ 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 estate in Jerusalem, the Eléona, which the head of French diplomacy was preparing to visit.
“Unacceptable situation”
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.
Four French estates
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 ancient crusader commandery of Abu Gosh with their Romanesque churches.
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