2023-11-01 06:48:25
Two French children died in the Gaza Strip, their mother and her third child having probably been injured, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday.
“France learned with sadness of the death of two children of French nationality found in the north of the Gaza Strip with their French mother who herself was injured, as well as her third child,” the quai said. d’Orsay in a press release, which does not specify the circumstances of the deaths.
#Gaza | France learned with sadness of the death of two children of French nationality who were in the north of the Gaza Strip with their French mother who was herself injured, as was her third child.
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The French consulate general in Jerusalem “however does not manage to establish direct contact on the ground with this national”, which does not allow “at this stage to verify the situation of this family”, continued the French authorities, who say they are continuing their efforts to “reach this national and provide assistance and support to her, as well as to her family”.
Their mother is the subject of an international arrest warrant for acts linked to terrorist enterprises
The Turkish Anadolu press agency indicated on October 25 that France was seeking “to confirm the situation” of a French family after the mother announced on social networks the death of two of her children in a bombing in Gaza. This woman also indicated that she and another of her children suffered “serious injuries”.
According to AFP, which cites a French source close to the case, this 43-year-old woman “has been the subject of an international arrest warrant since July 2016 for criminal association with a view to preparing acts of terrorism and financing of a terrorist enterprise”.
Born in Talence (Gironde), she is, according to this source, president of an association which in 2013 raised funds aimed at transporting medical equipment and medicines to Syria, funds which had in fact “been transported, during in the summer of 2013, in the Idlib region, for the benefit of jihadists, with the aim of acquiring weapons and ammunition.
170 French nationals in Gaza
In February 2019, the mother was sentenced in absentia to six years in prison in Paris for having distributed money collected by her association to members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, another movement, in 2012 and 2013 in Gaza. close to Hamas.
170 French nationals are in the Gaza Strip, Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna also indicated on Friday. France “urges once again that foreign nationals and in particular our compatriots can leave Gaza”, according to the Quai press release.
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