French President Emmanuel Macron urged Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "put an end to the strikes on Gaza and return to the ceasefire" in a phone call between the two leaders on Sunday. He also called on Israel to respect the truce in place with Hamas-ally Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Macron's intervention comes at a time when Israel has resumed its bombardment of the besieged Palestinian territory following the collapse of a fragile truce with the Islamist group Hamas.
