“We are heading towards genocide, it is underway,” accuses Fabien Roussel

The national secretary of the PCF, returning from a visit to Jerusalem and Ramallah, compared Sunday on Europe 1 and CNews the situation in the Palestinian territory to “Sarajevo” and the “Warsaw ghetto”.

“We were talking about a genocidal risk. What I heard, what I see, is that we are heading towards genocide. It is underway,” accused the national secretary of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, on Europe 1 and CNews on Sunday March 10, returning from a visit to Jerusalem and Ramallah.

The government of Benjamin Netanyahu is “wiping out the Palestinian people in Gaza”he said, describing a population of 2.1 million “bombarded” and that “are dying of hunger” in a territory “which is closed”, Or “there is no humanitarian aid coming in”, and who is watched by “The epidemics”.

“When we look at recent history of sieges where populations were besieged, bombed and exterminated, it’s Sarajevo, it’s the Warsaw ghetto.”

Fabien Roussel

on Europe 1 and CNews

For the communist deputy, “the far-right fascist government of Mr. Netanyahu (…) is accelerating the creation of a great State of Israel” by ensuring that “starve” and of “terrorize” the Palestinians, “so much so that after a while, they will open the door to Rafah and they will run and take refuge in the desert of Sinai.”

“A moral fault”, reacts Crif

The president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif) Yonathan Arfi reacted strongly to this comparison.“Comparing Gaza to the Warsaw ghetto is not just a historical error. It is a moral fault. For the Jews, the ghetto was a stage in the genocidal process put in place by the Nazis which led them massively to the point of ‘extermination”he wrote on X.

In January, the International Court of Justice called on Israel to prevent any possible act of genocide and allow humanitarian aid access to the Gaza Strip.