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France Tells Sharon - Stop
Military Ops Against Palestinians

10-20-2

PARIS -- France sent a blunt message to Israel Friday calling on it to halt its military operations against the Palestinians after a Gaza Strip tank attack that added to an already high toll of civilian deaths.
 
"We roundly deplore the recent incidents yesterday in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli shells on a school and Palestinian houses left at least eight dead, including two children," a spokeswoman for the French Foreign Ministry, Cecile Pozzo di Borgo, said.
 
"We call the Israeli authorities to show better restraint and to halt all military operations in the Palestinian territories," she told a media conference.
 
Pozzo di Borgo added that Paris saw Israel's incursions as a violation of the Geneva conventions and a blow to international efforts to restore some sort of stability to the region.
 
The Rafah incidents "result once again from the Israeli Army's recourse to disproportionate military means against a civilian Palestinian population in densely populated urban areas," she said.
 
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