“France must be able to act even more, with more clarity to demand a ceasefire,” said LFI MP Clémence Guetté.

“France must be able to act even more, with more clarity to demand a ceasefire” concerning the situation in the Gaza Strip, said Wednesday May 8 on France Inter, Clémence Guetté, LFI deputy for Val-de-Marne. L’Insoumise calls on the French government to “put all your strength into it” in negotiations on a truce between Israel and Hamas.

The member for Val-de-Marne considers that it is in fact “imperative” and a “extreme emergency” that these negotiations continue in the face of the threat of a major offensive by the Israeli army in Rafah. Clémence Guetté fears a “enormous risk of famine” in this city which has become a refuge for more than a million Palestinians. She also mentions a “genocidal risk” and consider that we “cannot be complicit in this situation.” “I don’t want us to wake up too late, for the situation to already be absolutely catastrophic and for Netanyahu to follow through with this completely crazy project”she is indignant.

“Totally insufficient”

Faced with this situation, the elected “waits for concrete measures” from the French executive. She judges “totally insufficient” what has been done so far, citing in particular “the gallery [d’Emmanuel Macron] to call for a ceasefire.” in the newspaper Le Monde. “There are countries, like Canada, which have declared an embargo on arms deliveries to Israel so as not to be complicit in what is happening today”, she maintains. The deputy La France insoumise therefore pleads for “an embargo”, “economic pressure on Israel”.

Clémence Guetté, also denounces “the current climate of censorship and repression” In France. She believes that it is today “difficult” to address the question of the war in the Middle East, mentioning in particular the “summons [par la police] of Mathilde Panot and Rima Hassan for apologizing for terrorism” last week. Clémence Guetté sees in these summons a “approach intended to intimidate, to silence”. The elected official also supports pro-Palestinian students mobilized in several universities and high schools. She welcomes the mobilization of this “youth aware of the massacre taking place” in Gaza and “who want to be able to express their indignation, their revolt”. Clémence Guetté denounces the intervention “extremely violent” law enforcement officers who evacuated the Sorbonne University in Paris on Tuesday.