October 15, 2024

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron warned Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to "ignore United Nations decisions" during a weekly meeting with his ministers Tuesday, according to French media reports, confirmed by a participant in the meeting.

"Mr. Netanyahu must not forget that his country was created by a U.N. decision," he is quoted as saying, referencing the U.N. General Assembly's November 1947 vote that terminated the British mandate of Palestine and split the land into a Jewish and an Arab state.

Macron and Netanyahu have been trading barbs in recent days amid fears of an escalation of the conflict between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group, which risks engulfing Lebanon and its civilian population.

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