Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron (L) as they hold a joint press conference in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says he spoke by phone this evening with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss the repeated attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, cross-border skirmishes between Israeli forces and the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah and the ongoing war in Gaza against Hamas.
“Prime Minister Netanyahu thanked President Macron for France’s involvement in defending freedom of navigation in the Red Sea, and its willingness to assist in restoring security to Israel’s border with Lebanon,” says a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office.
The statement says Netanyahu also updated Macron about “the war to destroy Hamas” and Israel’s efforts to return the hostages kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists during the October 7 massacres.