# Israel blasts Macron’s UN remarks on West Bank as ‘grotesque absurdity’

https://mins.news/en/item/70267

- France 24, 2026-09-23 08:41 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260923-israel-blasts-grotesque-absurdity-of-macron-s-un-remarks-on-west-bank

> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office sharply rebuked French President Emmanuel Macron’s UN speech condemning settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. It called Macron’s claim that Hamas had never attacked in the West Bank a “grotesque absurdity.”

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