Macron Warns Israel of Sanctions as Gaza Hunger Deepens

France’s Emmanuel Macron, touring Singapore, called Israel’s blockade-driven hunger crisis “untenable” and hinted Paris may soon target hard-line settlers with sanctions if relief trucks keep idling at Gaza’s gates. He dismissed the idea that Israel is meeting humanitarian obligations, insisting the world can’t stay passive while parents trade wedding rings for flour and five-year-olds waste away in overstretched Nasser Hospital.

Macron framed recognition of a Palestinian state as both “moral duty” and political necessity, but said any roadmap must include tight security guarantees and Hamas’s disarmament—a carrot France hopes to present at next month’s Paris-Riyadh summit. Israeli officials snapped back, branding his blockade claim “a blatant lie,” even as UN agencies repeat that food has trickled in only under a new, opaque NGO scheme marred by live-fire chaos at aid sites.

Behind the diplomatic volley, famine indicators flash red: one in five Gazans already face imminent starvation, aid convoys are met with gunfire, and wounded civilians crowd field clinics with nothing but saline. Macron’s threat piles fresh weight on Israel’s shrinking list of allies—and signals Europe’s patience is thinning as every unmoving truck adds another hungry child to the enclave’s grim ledger.