Gaza: Olivier Faure denounces a “genocide”

Meeting alongside Fabien Roussel (PCF) and Marine Tondelier (Environmentalists), the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, spoke on Monday evening on the forecourt of Human Freedoms and Rights in Paris to denounce what he describes as “genocide” in progress in Gaza, attributed to the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I come to make this place a cry of indignation,” he said, saying that the state of Israel is currently carrying out a destruction campaign against the Palestinian people. He recalled that since January 2024, states have legally required to prevent the genocide, in accordance with the orders of the International Court of Justice. “These injunctions remained a dead letter, even though the 1948 Convention obliges us,” he insisted.

Olivier Faure highlighted the convergent alerts of dozens of NGOs, 30 independent United Nations experts, as well as the UN independent commission of inquiry, which evoke a process of systematic destruction in Gaza. “Famine is raging, humanitarian aid is hampered, hot meals fell 70 % in early May, and the aid arrives only in droppings,” he insisted. Referring to the concept of intentionality necessary to legally qualify a genocide, the socialist leader pointed out the numerous statements of Israeli officials, according to him, in this sense.