The Ministry for Europe and International Affairs was deeply shocked to study of the demise of one in every of its staff because of his accidents throughout an Israeli bombardment in Rafah, within the south of the Gaza Strip.
He had taken refuge in the home of one in every of his colleagues from the French Consulate Normal, along with two different colleagues and lots of members of their households, amongst others.
The home was struck on Wednesday night by an Israeli bombing which significantly wounded our worker and killed about 10 folks.
Our colleague had labored for France since 2022. A few of his household had been capable of go away Gaza for France, below evacuation preparations made by the Ministry for Europe and International Affairs, which took into consideration particularly these French folks current in Gaza, staff of the Institut français and their dependents.
The Ministry for Europe and International Affairs is in touch with our colleague’s household in France. It extends its heartfelt condolences to them. This night all of us mourn their loss, and his colleagues on the French Consulate Normal in Jerusalem are particularly in our ideas.
France condemns this bombing of a residential constructing which killed many different civilians.
We demand that the Israeli authorities shed full gentle on the circumstances of this bombing as rapidly as attainable.
