France's Macron tells Israel's Netanyahu to end Gaza plight

French President Emmanuel Macron has told Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu that the suffering in Gaza has to stop. Meanwhile, the head of the UN said he was "deeply alarmed" by a strike on a Gaza hospital. DW has more.

The French president and Israeli prime minister spoke in a phone call, with Emmanuel Macron telling Benjamin Netanyahu that: "The ordeal the civilian populations of Gaza are going through must end."

Macron also stressed that a ceasefire was the only way to ensure the liberation of further hostages.

At the same time, Netanyahu reiterated his strict opposition to the realization of a Palestinian state to the French leader.

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