French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot arrived in Lebanon Sunday night for talks with authorities and to bring humanitarian aid, after earlier calling for an “immediate” end to Israeli air strikes. As he arrived, the foreign ministry announced that a second French person had been killed in Lebanon.
"Lebanon, a friend of France, already so fragile, is drawn into a war it has not chosen," said Barrot, who arrived in Beirut for a 24-hour visit as the Israeli army increased its air strike campaign, hitting the capital for the first time