2023-11-15 04:09:46
The National Assembly was in shock on Tuesday. MPs described the “horror” after the release of a film compiled by Israeli authorities showing massacres committed by Hamas commandos on October 7.
The Renaissance deputy Mathieu Lefèvre was at the initiative of this screening, proposed to the members of the France-Israel friendship group of the National Assembly which he chairs, behind closed doors, without telephones or collaborators. “I believe that those who have seen this video will no longer be able to sleep in peace for a long time,” he confided, describing the facts recounted in this forty-minute film as “an attack on ‘entire humanity’.
Attackers glorying in their actions
The film, already presented to journalists and diplomats in Israel and other countries, was made from extracts from the cameras and phones of Hamas attackers, killed or taken prisoner, and images captured by victims and first aiders. It shows images of civilians being hunted down, killed at point blank range, the corpses of tortured adults and children lying in the thickets, but also babies with blurred faces in body bags. It also shows attackers glorying in their actions.
After the viewing, moved deputies came to testify before the press in the Salle des Quatre-colonnes of the Palais Bourbon. In tears at the end of the screening, MP Meyer Habib (related to LR), whose constituency for French people living abroad covers Israel, struggled to catch his breath. Further on, LR Éric Ciotti said he “had to look away” in the face of the horror of certain passages.
“The images I saw are extremely violent,” said LFI MP David Guiraud during a brief speech. “I believe that I will never forget to respect all the dead,” concluded the elected Insoumis. The deputy from the North, one of the fiercest defenders of the Palestinian cause, sparked a political storm on Saturday, accused of putting into perspective the atrocities committed by Hamas.
The left mainly opposed to the projection
The projection of these images sparked controversy, dividing elected officials around their participation. The left, skeptical, was mainly opposed to this projection. The first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure said he did not want to “participate in what was initially a Hamas propaganda operation”, in reference to the images filmed by the attackers themselves.
Among the Communists, who also refused to take part, certain deputies went so far as to criticize “a form of indecency in this initiative”, according to the Bouches-du-Rhône deputy Pierre Dharréville.
Senator LR Roger Karoutchi, president of the friendship group with Israel in the upper house, indicated that he also intended to organize a broadcast, without a date having yet been set.
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