Paris – French President Francois Hollande has made contact with the leaders of Israel and Egypt to try to prevent an escalation of fighting in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Jean-Francois Ayrault said on Thursday.
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The killing of a Hamas militant commander in an Israeli air strike on Wednesday has sparked a wave of reciprocal attacks between Israel and the Islamist Hamas, which rules Gaza. A total of 16 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed.
“It’s time to stop this escalation, which is dangerous for the security of Israel and its people and for that of the Palestinian people,” Ayrault told reporters during a visit to Berlin.
France had made “direct contact” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, he added. “France will do everything it can to avoid an escalation of the violence.”
What 3 Israelli soldiers?? When did that happen? Last reported were 3 civilians. iIs this something new?
We can definitively use some cool heads here.
I’m not taking positions here, but to see every comment here without any merit makes me wonder if there are any rational thinkers left in Israel.
“The killing of an Hamas militant commander by the Israeli military on Wednesday has sparked a wave of reciprocal attacks” how about the rockets from Gaza into Israel sparked a wave of reciprocal attacks
Why repeat a story (where did VIN get it from?) written to make Israel look bad. Yes, it’s important to know that France’s president is trying to help end the Gaza fighting (why is that no one gets involved when it’s just Israel being attacked and only when Israel decides it is tired of turning the other cheek and decides to defend herself all of a sudden everyone comes out of the woodwork to try and make peace) but everything in this story is totally skewed if not factually wrong. It was 3 civilians killed, not Israeli soldiers. The reporter obviously wishes to intimate that Israel started the violence by saying that “The killing of an Hamas militant commander by the Israeli military on Wednesday has sparked a wave of reciprocal attacks between Israel and Hamas”. Hamas started with the incessant firing of rockets and missiles by Hamas into Israel for days on end when Israel decide that enough is enough and fought back.. Don’t you love the way this reporter writes “reciprocal attacks between Israel and Hamas” as if to equate the Hamas attacks aimed at civilians with the Israeli attacks aimed at terrorists? Bottom line, why reprint stories that try to make Israel look bad???
Have you ever heard the head lines: (which ever country it is tells) hamas to make peace and not fire rockets into israel??? NO u only hear : israel stop attacking that’s the only way for peace, what’s a crazy 1 sided world out there
Tell the French Pres. to protect France. I just read that one of their missiles just missed Dimona!! It landed in the grass. Thank G-d these terrorists are bad shots!!
France is more interested in their own head lice than they are in the ability of a nation to defent itself against Terror.