MPs denounce the “horror” of an “attack on humanity” after images of the October 7 massacres were projected in the National Assembly
“Attack on humanity”, “horror” and “horror”: MPs expressed their emotions on Tuesday after a film showing the massacres carried out by Hamas commandos on Israeli soil on October 7 was shown in the National Assembly . “I believe that those who have seen this video will not be able to sleep in peace for a long time,” said Renaissance MP Mathieu Lefèvre, describing the facts told in this forty-minute film as “an attack on all of humanity.” ”
Mr. Lefèvre was the initiator of this demonstration, proposed to the members of the France-Israel Friendship Group of the National Assembly, of which he is chairman, behind closed doors, without telephones or staff. The film was made by Israeli authorities from excerpts from camera and phone footage of killed or captured Hamas fighters, as well as images captured by victims and rescuers. It shows killings and tortured corpses of adults and children.
Éric Ciotti (Les Républicains) said he had to “look the other way” given the horror of certain passages. “The images I saw are extremely violent,” said La France Iinsoumise MP David Guiraud during a brief intervention. “I believe that I will never forget to respect all the dead,” concluded the elected official, who was at the center of a controversy following statements about Hamas abuses in Israel.
In a video posted on social networks on Saturday and recorded during an intervention in Tunis, we hear him utter the following sentence: “The baby in the oven was actually made by Israel, the disemboweled mother. It was done, it is true, by Israel.” Then after a moment’s hesitation: “I believe it was in Sabra and Chatila. » David Guiraud, elected from the north, is one of the most ardent defenders of the Palestinian cause and one of Israel’s harshest critics among the “rebel” MPs.
The Sabra and Chatila massacres in 1982 were carried out by Lebanese Christian phalanxes allied with Israel during a military intervention by the Jewish state in Lebanon. But Israel was also blamed for failing to prevent these massacres, which left between 800 and more than 2,000 people dead in these Palestinian camps.