Head of French diplomacy, Stéphane Séjourné, visited the Middle East a week ago. “We must understand that after October 7, Israeli society is no longer the same.

Long-term. I only fully appreciated it by being there,” he tells Ouest France. ‘The humanitarian situation in Gaza today is catastrophic, and unacceptable in reality,’ he adds. Paris is currently preparing sanctions against extremist settlers in the West Bank, he says.