“Attention, words have a precise meaning in diplomacy. The war on terrorism with the return of the coalition against the Islamic State means that France will participate in the war against Hamas?” Mélenchon, who has been a presidential candidate on several occasions wondered on his X account.

In Jerusalem, after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the French president told reporters that the coalition created in 2014 could also fight Hamas, which perpetrated a lethal attack on Israeli soil on October 7, killing some 1,400 persons.

Mélenchon insisted that if so, where or when France’s eventual participation would be.

“In Gaza? Now?” stressed the politician, who criticized Macron for not calling for a ceasefire in the conflict, which has escalated after Hamas’s action and Israel’s retaliation by bombing the Gaza Strip ever since and imposing a total blockade, with more than 5,000 Palestinians’ deaths so far.

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