A simple accident? Asked this Sunday, July 20 at night in BFMTV, Joshua Zarka, Israel ambassador to France, acknowledged “an error” after the mortal Tsahal in a church in the Gaza Strip.
“It is unfortunate and sad, but it is a mistake. For two years of war, errors have occurred,” said the ambassador to our antenna.
The latter also ensures that “it was not the goal to attack this church” and that “Prime Minister (Benjamin Netanyahu, editor’s note) called the Pope to apologize.”
A strike denounced in France
The Israeli strike had addressed the Catholic Church of the Sagrada Familia in Gaza and killed two Palestinians on July 17.
Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, had denounced an “inadmissible” bombing of a low “historical protection of France” place, a few moments after the drama.
“I told the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem the emotion and solidarity of our country. These attacks are intolerable, it is time for carnage cease,” he added.
France protects from Catholic religious communities in Israel and Palestine. This role is the heritage of a long history that dates back to the capitulations signed by François 1st with Sultan Solimen the Magnificent in 1535, “said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a written response to a matter of a senator in 2014.
Source: BFM TV
