I extend in the name of the Israeli government
my condolences to the Lebanese people.
A very great disaster occurred yesterday in Lebanon.
We are ready to provide humanitarian assistance to Lebanon,
as human beings to human beings.
What should I feel? We in Lebanon, they wrote on
Twitter that in Lebanon we survive, we don't live.
Every other day we have something, it started with the forest fires
last year, and they said aircrafts would exacerbate the fires instead
of distinguishing them, then the revolution of October 17,
then the economic crisis, COVID-19 and now this, we don't know if it's a
warehouse (explosion, referring to the port of Beirut warehouse
that exploded). If it's a warehouse (that exploded)
it's a problem and if it's war or an attack, this is also a problem.
You can't feel anything in Lebanon, there's nothing to be sad
about or to think about. Our country is this way,
we have to get used to it.
First of all I've come, almost straight away, to show a sign of support,
of friendship, of brotherly solidarity for the Lebanese people after
the explosion on August 4 in the port, which affected the whole population
and the whole of Beirut. Above all, I would say,
that support and solidarity is necessary because it's Lebanon,
it's France, and it was my duty to be here to show that friendship.