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French Foreign and European Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot slammed on Thursday a US and Israel-backed aid distribution system in the besieged Gaza Strip, saying it had generated a “bloodbath” and had to cease activity. “I want to call for the cessation of the activities of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the militarised distribution of humanitarian aid that has generated a bloodbath in distribution lines in Gaza, which is a scandal, which is shameful, and has to stop,” Barrot told reporters after meeting his Cyprus counterpart in Nicosia. The Palestinian Civil Defence in the Gaza Strip announced on Wednesday the killing of at least 30 Palestinians and the wounding of more than 300 others by Israeli gunfire while waiting for humanitarian aid […]
