Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas received French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on Thursday following the incident in which Israeli police arrested two French security officers inside a Catholic sanctuary located on the Mount of Olives and owned by France. , north of Jerusalem.
At the meeting, Abbas reiterated his call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the entry of aid into the enclave and the withdrawal of the Israeli army. Likewise, he warned of the seriousness of the ban on the activities of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA).
Likewise, the president of the Palestinian Authority welcomed European positions in favor of international legitimacy and international law, as well as the two-state solution, as reported by the WAFA news agency.
As part of his visit, Barrot visited the West Bank town of Al Biré, located on the outskirts of Ramallah, where a group of extremist settlers burned around 20 vehicles earlier this week.
The visit takes place after Israeli police entered Eleona's sanctuary without permission and armed. Two agents of the French consulate general in Jerusalem have been arrested, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported.
Barrot, who had intervened to have those arrested released, canceled his planned visit to the sanctuary. Paris denounced that “these actions are not acceptable”, which is why it announced that Israeli Ambassador Joshua Zarka would be summoned “in the coming days”.
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