Several officials again called this Saturday for a ceasefire in the Middle East, in reaction to the intensification of strikes by the Israeli army on the Gaza Strip, and protested against the ban on the demonstration in support to the Palestinians in Paris.
The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, denounced a response that had “turned into revenge”. “While Gaza is suffocating under bombs and deprivation, settlers are advancing into the West Bank. France and Europe must come to the table and forcefully voice a path for lasting peace. Ceasefire! », he wrote on X (ex-Twitter).
Several parliamentarians present during the demonstration in Paris
Traveling to Martinique, PCF number one Fabien Roussel said “(his) emotion but above all (his) anger, in the face of this mass massacre, in the face of the culpable inaction, the complicit silence, of France, of the Union European”. Their counterpart from the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier called on the “Netanyahu government to immediately put an end to war crimes over its actions in Gaza and to guarantee respect for the rights of Palestinian civilian populations”.
LFI deputy Paul Vannier pointed out the silence of the executive. “2.2 million civilians are under bombs with no possibility of fleeing without food, water or electricity. The UN special rapporteur speaks of ethnic cleansing. The Israeli far-right government announces that it will continue the massacre. Macron is silent”, he tweeted.
The left also spoke out against the ban on the pro-Palestinian demonstration in Paris. “There are protests around the world demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. It is only here that freedom of expression is gagged,” criticized Olivier Faure. Marine Tondelier denounced a “serious obstacle to the fundamental right to demonstrate peacefully in support of the Palestinian populations”.
Several environmentalist and LFI parliamentarians went to the Parisian demonstration with their scarves, such as EELV deputies Aurélien Taché and Sandrine Rousseau, LFI deputies Thomas Portes and Jérôme Legavre, or senator Yannick Jadot. “It is terrible that in France, unlike all other European countries, we cannot express our solidarity and our pain for the people of Gaza as well as our demand for an immediate ceasefire,” said writes the former environmentalist presidential candidate on.
The RN and Renaissance react
Israel said this Saturday that the war against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas had “entered a new phase” in the Gaza Strip, three weeks after being triggered by the deadliest attack in Israel’s history.
“Hamas exercises totalitarian control over the Gaza Strip and uses civilians as human shields and hospitals and schools as shelters. Israel has the right to defend itself; the protection of civilians and respect for humanitarian law is a priority for France,” explained Renaissance MP Benjamin Haddad. on.
The RN deputy Julien Odoul, for his part, considered it necessary on Franceinfo, “to eradicate Hamas”, “even if in any war there is collateral damage and we deplore it”. “There will be no peace if this terrorist group continues its exactions, its massacres, if it continues to oppress the Palestinian people,” he said, emphasizing the “perverseness” of the Islamist movement which “is serves (…) the Gazan population as a human shield” and estimating that “the Israeli state has left a lot of time” to allow the latter to flee.
Julien Odoul also supported the decision of the authorities in Paris to ban the “scandalous” pro-Palestinian demonstrations which according to him “are pro-Hamas demonstrations with anti-Semitic slogans”.