Macron Claims Eliminating Hamas Would Take Israel ‘Ten Years’, Calls for Ceasefire and Two-State Talks
French President Emmanuel Macron claimed that it would take Israel a decade to fully eradicate the Islamist Hamas terrorist organisation.

French President Emmanuel Macron claimed that it would take Israel a decade to fully eradicate the Islamist Hamas terrorist organisation.
At COP28, EU Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen demanded new taxes and other schemes to take green agenda investment into the “trillions”.
A French senator has been handed preliminary charges for drugging another lawmaker with the aim of rape or sexual assault.
French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly backtracked on his comments suggesting Israel was intentionally killing “women and babies” in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuked French President Emmanuel Macron early Saturday morning after Macron called on Israel to stop killing Palestinian “babies and women,” declaring that Hamas was to blame for all civilian casualties.
Senators in France started debating a bill Monday that is intended to toughen the country’s immigration laws.
In an unprecedented case, France’s serving justice minister goes on trial Monday on charges of using his office to settle personal scores.
President Emmanuel Macron said that legislation will be put forward to ensure the “freedom” to have an abortion in the French Constitution.
French President Emmanuel Macron called for a “humanitarian truce” in the Hamas-Israel conflict to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip.
In a speech from Jerusalem, French President Emmanuel Macron called for an international “coalition” to combat terrorist groups like Hamas.
President Emmanuel Macron called for all radical Islamist migrants residing in France to be removed from the country.
An Imam in Paris has called upon the French government to immediately deport any migrants who are known to the police for Islamic extremism.
France urged the Hezbollah terror group to stay out of the conflict between Israel and Hamas to avoid “opening a second front in the region”.
France will mobilize 7,000 soldiers to increase security around the country after a teacher was fatally stabbed in a suspected Islamist attack.
French President Emmanuel Macron revealed a second alleged attack has been foiled at another school on Friday.
Leaders across Europe were quick to condemn what is being described as an “unprecedented” attack on Israel by Hamas militants.
President Emmanuel Macron and King Charles III were holding talks in Paris on Wednesday at the start of a long-awaited three-day state visit.
A visit to France by King Charles III will take place this week after an almost six-month delay cause by strikes and mass public protests in Britain’s near neighbour.
(AFP) — President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that France’s envoy to Niger is living like a hostage in the French embassy and accused military rulers of blocking food deliveries to the mission. The ambassador is living off “military rations”,
The military government of Niger on Sunday claimed France is positioning troops in surrounding countries and preparing an invasion to reverse the coup that forced President Mohamed Bazoum out of power in July.
President Emmanuel Macron was roundly booed as he took to the pitch for the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup on Friday.
A massive protest on Saturday in Niger’s capital city of Niamey drew tens of thousands of angry demonstrators who demanded France withdraw all of its forces immediately. France has been critical of the July 26 coup, but the public has demonstrated a great deal of support for the junta, and attitudes towards France soured even before the civilian government was overthrown.
Head-to-toe robes worn by Muslims, known as abayas for girls and women and khamis for boys and men, have been banned from French public school classrooms beginning Monday.
Emmanuel Macron reportedly railed against the limit on presidential terms preventing him from running again in 2027 as “disastrous bullshit”.
The EU will seek to expand its borders east and absorb Ukraine and the western Balkans by the end of the decade, Charles Michel said.
President Emmanuel Macron said that France’s ambassador is staying at his post in Niger despite being asked to leave by the ruling junta.
French President Emmanuel Macron has assured England it’s “nothing personal” but he is siding with Australia when the two countries meet Wednesday in the Women’s World Cup soccer semi-finals.
Protesters in Niger marched through the capital on Sunday in support of the military coup before attacking the French embassy.
Emmanuel Macron continued his push for censorship in France, arguing for the ability to impose “digital public order” amid riots or unrest.
Former President Donald Trump said on this week’s broadcast of “Sunday Morning Futures” that President Joe Biden “has no clue what’s happening” in foreign affairs.
Ironically for a national holiday celebrating a rebellion against authority, France is marking Bastille day with a huge police deployment.
Indian PM Modi guest of honour at France’s Bastille Day celebrations, taking place under tight security after the country was swept by riots.
As was the case for the governor of the Bastille prison 234 years ago, the Macron government is — at least metaphorically — under siege.
Indian PM Narendra Modi began a two-day visit to France where he will discuss major new defence deals.
NATO’s annual summit in kicked off with new pledges of military support, with new missiles and tanks heading east from Germany and France.
The riots that recently swept across France were a result of “failures of migration policy” according to six in ten in the country.
France’s Parliament voted to approve controversial law allowing police to remotely turn on cameras and microphones to surveil suspects.
French President Emmanuel Macron faced comparisons to communist dictators after calling for social media networks to be cut off during riots.
Two-thirds of the people of France would support ending the ‘Fifth Republic’, as President Emmanuel Macron continues to fail to restore order.
Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of an elite French unit that joined U.S. and other Allied forces in the 1944 D-Day has died.