French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday introduced a “humanitarian convention” can be held in Paris on November 9, and reiterated requires a truce in Israel’s offensive at the Gaza Strip to give protection to civilians.

The French president mentioned the convention can be held “at the margins” of the Paris Peace Discussion board, which can happen subsequent week within the French capital.

“We’re calling for a truce for the reason that struggle towards terrorism does now not justify sacrificing civilians,” Macron informed journalists throughout a discuss with to the storm-ravaged Brittany area, in step with French media studies.

Macron’s announcement echoes a suggestion from Spanish Top Minister Pedro Sánchez for a peace convention to unravel the Israel-Hamas warfare at a up to date Ecu summit.

It comes because the French overseas ministry previous on Friday requested Israel for explanations after an Israeli strike hit a construction of the French Institute within the Gaza Strip.

“We’ve requested the Israeli government to keep up a correspondence at once … the tangible parts which motivated this determination,” the overseas ministry mentioned in a commentary, including that no staff or French voters have been provide within the construction on the time of the strike.

Agence France-Presse’s Gaza bureau was once additionally shelled via Israeli forces on Friday, inflicting “important injury” to the construction however no casualties amongst AFP group of workers, which have been evacuated to southern Gaza, the French newswire mentioned in a commentary on X.

The Gaza Strip — which is managed via the Hamas militant team and residential to two.3 million other folks — has been underneath a “whole siege” via Israel for almost 4 weeks, restricting all get entry to to meals, water and gasoline in retaliation for Hamas’ marvel assaults on Israel soil on October 7, which killed greater than 1,400 other folks.

Consistent with the Hamas-controlled well being government in Gaza, greater than 9,200 Palestinians were killed via Israel’s flooring and airborne offensive, which as of Thursday night had ended in the encirclement of Gaza Town via Israeli forces.

Israel’s Top Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday brushed aside calls from U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken for a humanitarian pause to let assist into Gaza, announcing Israeli’s military would stay bombarding the enclave with “all of its energy.”