Rima Hassan and the three other French activists selected in Israel will be expelled – Liberation

The four pro-Palestinian French activists still retained in Israelincluding the MEP Insoumise France (LFI) Rima Hassan – which was briefly placed in isolation according to an NGO – will be expelled Thursday and Friday, announced French diplomacy this evening Wednesday, June 11.

« Thank you to our agents for their admirable mobilization which allowed this rapid outcome, despite the harassment and defamation of which they were the object »wrote on X the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot, while LFI accuses the French authorities « Unbearable inaction » Since the argument « illegal » Monday by Israel from a sailboat to Gaza with 12 pro-Palestinian activists on board.

The return to France of Rima Hassan and another French national is scheduled for Thursday evening in Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, airport where will arrive on Friday evening two other activists Who were sailing on the boat, AFP learned from airport source.

But the news was welcomed with prudence and distrust by the radical left movement La France rebellious, who made the defense of the Palestinian cause one of his main fights and denounces a « genocide » in Gaza.

« He tells himself that Rima Hassan and her prisoner teammates would be expelled tomorrow. (…)) For the moment Rima Hassan is in isolation for having written « Free Palestine » on the wall of his cell. We will believe her released when we see her in Paris. By then we mobilize and despise our jailers and their accomplices here ”wrote on X the leader of LFI Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

A total of 12 French, German, Brazilian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish and Dutch activists, which The Swedish Greta Thunberghad left Italy on June 1st aboard a sailboat for « Breaking the Israeli blockade » de Gaza, plagued by a disastrous humanitarian situation after more than 20 months of a war launched by the bloody attack of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 2023 on Israel. The Israeli navy arose the boat on Monday morning about 185 kilometers west of the Gaza coast.

If Greta Thunberg has already been expelled to Sweden, the Israeli NGO of human rights Adalah said on Wednesday that two of the pro-Palestinian activists arrested on the sailboat, including Rima Hassan, had been placed in isolation. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not commented on this information.

On its X account, the Franco-Palestinian MEP team said it was placed in isolation cell « After writing « Free Palestine » « on the walls of its cell. She began a hunger strike in protest ”added the same source. The NGO Adalah subsequently clarified that Rima Hassan had been released from her isolation.

The activists of « the flotilla for freedom », who wanted in particular to bring a little humanitarian aid to the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, « Returned to Israel illegally » And « Their status is an illegal immigrant status », The Israeli ambassador said on Wednesday morning in Paris Joshua Zarka. « The goal is to put them on a plane to France as quickly as possible, » he said.

Two of the six French people who had been arrested on Monday have already been expelled. One of them, doctor Baptiste André, denounced when he arrived in Paris on Tuesday evening in Paris « Acts of mistreatment » from Israeli immigration services, including the « Sleep deprivation ».