Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant rejected on Friday the initiative presented by French President Emmanuel Macron in which France, along with the US and Israel, formed a contact group to work on defusing tensions on the southern Lebanese border.
“While we are fighting a just war in defense of our people, France adopts anti-Israeli policies,” Gallant said in a statement, emphasizing that “Israel will not be part of a French-proposed tripartite framework.”
Macron had announced, during the G7 summit, that “France, the United States and Israel will work within a ‘trilateral’ framework on a French roadmap aimed at containing tensions on the border between Israel and Lebanon.”
At the end of a first day of meetings in southern Italy, he told reporters, “We have all expressed our concern about the situation on the border with Lebanon, especially with the United States.”
Macron proposed “adopting a trilateral principle (bringing together) Israel, the United States and France to move towards the roadmap we proposed,” revealing that he “will do the same with the Lebanese authorities.”
