By Muhsin Ibrahim
French President Emmanuel Macron has strongly criticised U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to evacuate Gaza, calling it a humanitarian crisis rather than a political manoeuvre.
“You cannot come and tell two million people to leave. It is a humanitarian issue. Human beings. This is not a real estate issue; it is a political issue,” Macron said in an interview with CNN.
Macron added that, “We have to respect the willingness of the Palestinian people to have a state.”
The French leader’s remarks come amid ongoing international debates over the future of Gaza and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Many people described Trump’s proposal as ethnic cleansing and condemned it, while Israel’s far-right politicians welcomed it.