Conflict between Israel and Hamas, dissensions within the Nupes… Fabien Roussel’s “8h30 franceinfo”

Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF and deputy from the North, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Friday October 13, 2023. Conflict between Israel and Hamas, dissensions within Nupes… He answered questions from Jean- Rémi Baudot and Agathe Lambret.

Israel-Hamas conflict: Roussel “worried” about a “risk of conflagration”

“I’m worried. We’re all worried”declared Fabien Roussel. “The concerns that everyone has are those linked to the now widespread conflagration after this horrible attack of October 7, which will remain as a black day for humanity. There will be a before and an after”he continued. “Everyone is afraid of the conflagration that could develop today. There is the response right now from the Israeli government, but there is the offensive that will take place in the hours, in the days to come “, he explained. The IDF demanded the evacuation of northern Gaza within 24 hours. The UN fears “humanitarian disaster”.

Nupes: LFI leaders must “clarify their position” on Hamas

“As long as he doesn’t clarify his position, I don’t see how” Jean-Luc Mélenchon “can continue to be a credible interlocutor”, said Fabien Roussel, after the controversial remarks of the leader of La France insoumise on Hamas. For the boss of the communists, the leaders of LFI must “clarify their position”. “There can be no doubts, vagueness, serious breaches when there is news like the one that has just occurred,” he judged. “To only qualify what Hamas did as a war crime is to confuse the Palestinian people with Hamas. As if Hamas was the liberation army of Palestine, of a country at war against another”declared the MP. “I do not confuse Hamas with the Palestinian people. And in the same way I do not confuse the Israeli people with the far-right government led by Benjamin Netanyahu”he added.

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