PARIS: Several thousand people held protest demonstration in Paris on Saturday under the rallying call “Stop the massacre in Gaza.”
The protestors called for France to “demand an immediate truce” in the Gaza Strip. “I attended the protest to support the Palestinian cause, for a truce in Gaza,” said engineer Ahlem Triki.
The Israeli airstrikes and ground military offensive has killed more than 11,000 people in Gaza, health ministry said. 85-year-old trade unionist Claude Marill said that it is basic that as activists and citizens should go out on to the street to support the people of Palestine.
French MPs Mathilde Panot and Eric Coquerel also attended the march to express solidarity with the people of Palestine. Similar protest took place in other French towns and areas including Toulouse, Marseille, Bordeaux and Rennes.
Paris: Protesters Call for Gaza Truce
“This mobilization is vital, in the face of massacres,” said LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard at the demonstration of more than 1,300 people in Marseille. In Lyon, a Palestinian event promoting two books by a doctor who works in Gaza was assaulted by ultra-right militants, leaving at least 3 people with injuries, police and witnesses said. Organizer Jerome Fayner told the media the assault was by the “extreme right,” and said the attackers were also armed with glass bottles and iron bars.
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At least one attacker was arrested, the police said, adding they “strongly denounced the violence committed.”
