2023-11-04 16:26:31
Demonstrators during the rally in support of the Palestinians on November 4 in Paris. AURELIEN MORISSARD / AP
“Against no one” but for ” the peace “ and one “immediate ceasefire” in the war between Israel and Hamas: rallies in support of “Palestinian people” take place on Saturday November 4, in Paris and throughout France.
Before the Parisian demonstration, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, criticized since the start of the conflict for not having described “terrorist” Hamas and having criticized a visit to Israel by the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet, called for a “ceasefire” immediately in Gaza, where according to him “a terrible massacre” due to Israeli bombing. At least a thousand people left Place de la République at 3 p.m. to head towards Nation, noted Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Leila Gharbi, a 46-year-old legal assistant, holding a Palestinian flag, came to “the genocide stops” : “There needs to be an immediate ceasefire. » At his side, his daughter Inès, a 21-year-old student, wants “barbarism stops”. Keltoum Alouache has moved “for the children of Gaza and Palestine”. “We are against no one”specifies this 75-year-old Algerian retiree, who is holding a Palestinian flag. « Free Palestine » (“Liberate Palestine”) et “Cease the fire, stop the bombs on civilians!” »proclaim some of the signs.
Read the editorial in “Le Monde”: Gaza: the war at what cost?
Demonstration not prohibited by the prefecture
This demonstration, called by associations, unions and political parties, was not banned by the police headquarters, which however reminded in advance that it would not tolerate “no overflow”. This is the first non-banned pro-Palestinian mobilization that is not static. A gathering has already taken place Thursday evening in Paris, also authorized, with 2,000 people.
Other demonstrations and gatherings are planned in France, notably in Bordeaux, Orléans, Rouen and Nice.
In Strasbourg, there were at least a thousand shouting “So, so, so, solidarity with the Gazans” or “Terrorist Israel, Macron complicit”, noted AFP. In the morning, a march also brought together peacefully in Toulouse between 2,000 people, according to the CGT, and “more than 600”depending on the prefecture.
Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, triggered on October 7 by the unprecedented attack of the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli soil, more than 1,400 people have been killed, according to Israeli authorities – the majority of them civilians. day of the Hamas attack – and more than 240 people were taken hostage. In retaliation, Israel declared a war for “annihilate” Hamas, relentlessly shelling the Gaza Strip where nearly 9,500 people, including 3,900 children, were killed, according to a latest report from Hamas on Saturday.
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