The Insoumis leader was speaking before the start of a march in support of Palestinians in Paris.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon judged on Saturday that the resumption of Israel’s bombing of Gaza represented “every sign of a genocidal will” and estimated that Emmanuel Macron “no longer mattered” despite his renewed calls for “a permanent ceasefire”. “We are extremely concerned that the resumption of the bombing represents a period of intensification of the war and shows all the signs of a genocidal will,” the rebel leader said shortly before the start of a “March for Peace and Justice” in Paris in support of the Palestinians.
“Mr. Netanyahu had called on the people of Gaza to move from the north to the south, and now that the population is in the south, the bombings are taking place there,” denounced Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The three-time presidential candidate, who was present at the demonstration along with many rebel lawmakers, also stressed that “as many people died in the 42-day bombings in Gaza as during the four-year siege of Sarajevo” from 1992 to 1996. Hamas The government reported a death toll of more than 15,000, while the siege of the Bosnian capital claimed about 12,000 civilian lives.
Emmanuel Macron’s position “doesn’t play a big role there or here”
While President Emmanuel Macron called on Saturday in Dubai to “redouble efforts to achieve a lasting ceasefire in the Gaza Strip,” Jean-Luc Mélenchon was skeptical. “All the better if he calls for a permanent ceasefire,” he said, but “his position here and here doesn’t play much of a role.” “Maybe he’s doing what he can, but unfortunately I don’t think it matters anymore. What counts is us, public opinion,” he emphasized. “Global public opinion is the most important defense of the poor Palestinians in Gaza,” he said.
The Insoumis have been regularly criticized for refusing to label Hamas a “terrorist” organization, preferring instead to use the term “war crimes” to describe the Hamas attack on Israeli soil on October 7. On the other hand, he described the IDF’s response in Gaza as a “massacre.”
The leader of the environmentalists, Marine Tondelier, who was also present at the demonstration along with several elected representatives of the EELV, assured that Emmanuel Macron had succeeded “between October 12th” and “30th”. November,” the date of two of their meetings, “to confuse everyone.” the countries in the region” in the Middle East and France to disappoint “the CRIF, the defenders of Palestine and the defenders of peace”. She called for “the entry of the International Criminal Court into Gaza” in a column she co-signed with rebel MP François Ruffin and former Doctors Without Borders president Rony Brauman.