Paris, Oct 24: French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday (Oct 24) arrived in Tel Aviv amid ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas to express his country's solidarity with Israel. He will meet his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Tuesday.

 

 

 

 

During his visit, Macron will "show solidarity to Israel" and "make commitments against terrorist groups very clear." On October 22, Macron's office announced that the French president will visit Tel Aviv today for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, and centrist opposition leaders Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid. The French president's visit comes days after the visits by American President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rish Sunak, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Macron is the latest in a series of Western leaders who made a solidarity visit to Israel after the October 7 attacks by Hamas. However, he would be the first to visit the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank amid the crisis. The French presidency did not immediately confirm the meeting, according to The Times of Israel. Upon his arrival in Israel, to express his country's "full solidarity" with the Jewish state following the October 7 massacres by Palestinian terror group Hamas, he met his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog.

 

 

 

 

On October 17, Macron announced that he would visit Tel Aviv following the fatal terror attacks by the Hamas terror group in Israel, reported The Jerusalem Post. The French President has been a firm supporter of Israel since the Hamas group launched a series of attacks on Israel since October 7, killing 1400 Israelis and taking over 200 people hostage to Gaza.

 

 

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