French President Emmanuel Macron called on his Iranian counterpart on Sunday October 13 to support “a general de-escalation” in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, where pro-Iranian Hezbollah continues its fight against the Israeli army.
During a telephone interview with Massoud Pezeshkian, Emmanuel Macron underlined “Iran’s responsibility to support a general de-escalation and to use its influence in this direction with the destabilizing actors who receive its support”, said the presidency French.
Guarantee a “ceasefire”
The Iranian presidential office, for its part, said that the two leaders discussed how to guarantee a “ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel.”
Massoud Pezeshkian asked the French president to “collaborate with other European countries to force the Zionist regime to put an end to the genocide and crimes committed in Gaza and Lebanon,” the cabinet added.
The Israeli army is engaged in close combat with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon this Sunday, where it announced for the first time the capture of an enemy fighter. It is also intensifying its airstrikes against the pro-Iranian formation.
For its part, the Lebanese Islamist movement said it was fighting Israeli soldiers at the end of the afternoon “with automatic weapons” and “rockets” in at least four villages bordering Israel, with the Israeli army doing its part. state of “face to face combat” and “wounded soldiers” in its ranks.
After having weakened the Palestinian Hamas in Gaza, Israel moved the front of the war to Lebanon, saying it wanted to allow the return to northern Israel of some 60,000 inhabitants, displaced by the rocket attacks carried out for a year by Hezbollah in support for Hamas.
Original article published on BFMTV.com
