After a number of main demonstrations in assist of the Palestinian folks, greater than 2,500 folks gathered once more in entrance of TF1 headquarters, in Boulogne-Billancourt. This time to protest towards the published, on LCI, of an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The latter repeated the official place relating to the Israeli army operation in Gaza, particularly that “the variety of civilian losses relative to the losses of combatants [palestiniens est] the bottom price we now have seen in an city battle.” He additionally described “Anti-Semitic slander” accusations towards Israel of concentrating on civilians or starve them.
This interview, carried out remotely, takes place only a few days later the lethal bombing of a displaced individuals camp in Rafah, an operation which triggered a wave of worldwide indignation, together with amongst supporters of the Jewish state. On this overpopulated metropolis, the place many Palestinians have sought refuge, the Israeli military continued its strikes and its floor offensive launched on Could 7. The rationale given by Israel is all the time the identical: to remove the final battalions of Hamas.
A gathering with out incident
Shortly after the announcement of this interview, a name for protest was launched. Sporting keffiyehs and Palestinian flags, the demonstrators, the primary of whom arrived earlier than 7 p.m. close to the tower the place TF1 and LCI are situated, got here in three processions, famous an AFP journalist. A few of them blocked the George Pompidou expressway.
A big police power prevented the demonstrators from reaching the tower. They subsequently gathered in a single group, surrounded by a cordon of police, in a good-natured environment, with cries of “Gaza, Gaza, Paris is with you”, “A ceasefire now” or “murdering Israel”.
Aside from prices from the police, this gathering occurred with out incident. On the dispersal, “a couple of dozen demonstrators met close to the Gare Saint-Lazare, the place the police prevented the formation of untamed processions”, indicated a police supply, noting a return to regular round midnight.
“No to apologizing for genocide”
Benjamin Netanyahu’s interview on French tv was denounced by the France Palestine Solidarity Affiliation (AFPS). “The place of the one the prosecutor of the Worldwide Prison Courtroom considers him a battle felony and a felony towards humanity is earlier than justice and never on TV units in France”she posted on X.
Urgence Palestine inspired, on the identical social community, to “name to demand the cancellation of the published”“name out [les chaînes]” and collect “at 7 p.m., in entrance of TF1 and LCI”.
A number of elected officers from France Insoumise had been additionally indignant on the platform given to the Israeli Prime Minister. “No to apologizing for genocide”, wrote MP Louis Boyard. “Workers and interns of the TF1 group, take your tasks! Sabotage this present,” wrote, for her half, European candidate Rima Hassan. “There is no such thing as a query of the phrase of a battle felony being broadcast tonight,” she additionally wrote.
La France insoumise has made the denunciation of the state of affairs in Gaza, which it describes as “genocide”, one of many primary axes of its marketing campaign for Europeans. Its elected officers have been collaborating since Monday night in demonstrations towards the bombings on Rafahwhich brings collectively hundreds of individuals.
“Too many deaths, harmless youngsters. We should say cease”
One other demonstration occurred in Paris to protest towards the presence of Israeli firms on the Eurosatory arms honest.
For the reason that begin of the Israeli offensive in Rafah, quite a few demonstrations have been organized all through France. This Thursday night, some 300 folks gathered in Marseille. In Good, the organizers of a rally in entrance of the city corridor, going down each Saturday since November, introduced that it will now be day by day so long as Israeli flags remained on the constructing’s entrance.
All of the demonstrators are calling for consciousness of the state of affairs skilled by the Palestinian folks for months. “I got here as a result of I can not see the photographs that we now have seen day by day for months. Too many, too many deaths, too many harmless youngsters. It’s a must to say cease“, defined Nadège, a 67-year-old retiree, who demonstrated in Paris.
Identical story for Soraya (her identify has been modified). This 23-year-old political science pupil believes {that a} “genocide [est] in progress and [que] nobody does something. Dropping bombs on refugee camps when folks have nowhere to go… Why is the world not saying something?” she requested herself.
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