Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Israel this week, according to a statement
from the Israeli leader’s office.
The two leaders will “arrive on Monday and Tuesday” and meet him, the statement says.
Separately, Rutte’s office said he would travel to Israel for talks on Monday with Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Elyseé later confirmed that Macron will also visit this week.
Netanyahu spoke to both European leaders today as well as Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the statement also said.
These are the latest in a series of diplomatic visits following last week’s trips to Israel by UK PM Rishi Sunak, US President Joe Biden and Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
UN agency says 29 staff killed in last two weeks
Meanwhile, the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, says 29 of its staff have now been killed since the war between Hamas and Israel broke out earlier this month.
The agency – known as UNRWA – described being “in shock and mourning”. It had previously reported the deaths of 17 staff members.
“Half of these colleagues were teachers,” the agency added of its latest toll.
Thousands of Gazans have sought shelter at UNRWA facilities since Israel launched retaliatory strikes on Hamas after the organisation carried out deadly attacks on Israeli military posts and kibbutzes on 7 October – killing more than 1,400 people and taking more than 200 hostages into Gaza.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 4,600 have been killed there.
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