Middle East

French top diplomat in Israel to call for Gaza truce

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TEL AVIV: French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna arrived in Israel Sunday where she was due to press for an “immediate and durable” truce in the war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Colonna will meet her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen in Tel Aviv, as Israel presses on with its military offensive after the October 7 attacks that has left much of Gaza in ruins and sent tensions spiralling across the region.
Paris on Saturday condemned an Israeli strike in Gaza that killed a French foreign ministry employee, demanding that “light be shed” on the circumstances.

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