Diplomacy

Macron called Gaza a spectacle that should shame everyone.

Not one humanitarian corridor reopened, he said. Trump had called the peace secured.

The Rocket News · United Nations Bureau · New YorkSeptember 23, 2026 · 3 min read

Macron said not one humanitarian corridor in Gaza had been reopened.

Emmanuel Macron dismissed Trump’s claim that peace in Gaza is secured. Not a single humanitarian corridor had been reopened, the French president said. The world, he said, was watching a spectacle that should shame everyone. Reuters carried it from the Assembly.

The World desk files the diplomacy, not the strike. An Israeli raid in Khan Younis is a different wire. This note is the hall: a host who says the war is won, and an ally who says the corridor is still shut.

A spectacle that should shame everyone.

The World desk files Wednesday as it is: one sentence from Paris, and a corridor that, on Macron’s account, has not opened.

Wire and further reading: reuters.com

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