{"id":10879,"date":"2023-11-12T06:02:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T11:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=10879"},"modified":"2023-11-12T06:02:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T11:02:33","slug":"french-president-macron-urges-for-ceasefire-israel-hits-back-accusing-hamas-for-civilian-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/french-president-macron-urges-for-ceasefire-israel-hits-back-accusing-hamas-for-civilian-casualties\/10879\/","title":{"rendered":"French President Macron urges for ceasefire; Israel hits back accusing Hamas for civilian casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron said, on Friday, there was \u201cno justification\u201d for Israel\u2019s bombing of \u201cthese babies, these ladies, and these old people\u201d in the war against Hamas, reiterating his call for ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we do urge Israel to stop,\u201d Macron told BBC, expressing hope that other leaders from the West will join him in his call.<\/p>\n<p>The comment made by Macron met with pushback from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said Hamas was to blame for civilian casualties as a result of its devastating onslaught in southern Israel last month.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu accused Hamas of using the civilians as human shields, whereas Israel has offered safe passage for all the civilians to move away from the fighting zone. The statement made by the PM was likening the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group to the Islamic State jihadist organisation, ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Hamas has been holding \u201cour hostages \u2013 women, children, and the elderly \u2013 in a crime against humanity\u201d and uses \u201cschool, mosques, and hospitals as terror command centers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The premier added that the attacks conducted by Hamas in the Gaza Strip could be carried out in Paris, New York and everywhere around the world. \u201cWorld leaders must condemn Hamas-ISIS and not Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron said, on Friday, there was \u201cno justification\u201d for Israel\u2019s bombing of \u201cthese babies, these ladies, and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":10880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[2029,1395],"class_list":["post-10879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-france-israel","tag-israel-war"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}