The Israeli army announced on Saturday (November 16th) that it had launched air raids on the Gaza Strip in response to gunfire from the Hamas-controlled enclave. Attacks that claimed the lives of 34 Palestinians.
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Asked on the set of France 24, the former ambassador of the Palestinian Authority to the European Union, Leila Shahid, believes that the outgoing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "is taking hostage the inhabitants of Gaza, two millions of civilians ".
A tactic to "prevent", according to her, her rival, Benny Gantz, "to form a coalition government with the support of the Israeli Arab list". The former diplomat finally condemns the "cowardice" of the European Union in the face of Israeli domestic politics.