France will “refuse” any forced population displacement to Egypt, declares Séjourné. Egypt has been warning since October against a “forced transfer” of Gazans to its Sinai desert, fearing the creation of new Palestinian refugees.

The war between Israel and Hamas was triggered on October 7 by an attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli soil. Since then, 27,365 Palestinians, the vast majority women, children and adolescents, have been killed in the Gaza Strip.