French President Emmanuel Macron said at a closed session of the Council of Ministers that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should remember the circumstances of the creation of the Jewish state, which emerged based on the UN resolution. This is reported by Le Parisien newspaper.
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should not forget that his country was created by the decision of the United Nations, so he should not dispute the organization's decisions," Le Parisien quoted Macron as saying. The newspaper notes that the president made this statement in Lebanese language. Hezbollah" in the context of Israel's operations against the Shiite movement, which are carried out in the locations of the UN temporary forces in Lebanon, and in the context of summoning the Israeli ambassador to the French Foreign Ministry due to attacks on peacekeepers.
After Netanyahu's telephone conversation with Macron, the Israeli Prime Minister's office issued a statement under the title "Reminder to the French President". It states that "the State of Israel was created not by a UN resolution, but by victory in the War of Independence, paid for by the blood of brave soldiers, many of whom survived the Holocaust or fled collaboration with France's Vichy regime."
