MPs from La France insoumise (LFI) on Monday called on France to “urgently take necessary measures” against Israel, after the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on “the situation in Gaza”.
The rebellious elected officials have drafted a proposed parliamentary resolution on the subject, a text which has very little chance of succeeding, but which allows them to express their position.
They ask the government “to urgently take the necessary measures to ensure the application by Israel of the precautionary measures decided by the International Court” of justice, in the face of a “genocidal risk”.
These deputies from the radical left also “urgently” demand a meeting of the “United Nations Security Council to discuss the measures it can take”.
Take “immediate” steps to enable the delivery of humanitarian aid
The ICJ on Friday called on Israel to “take all measures in its power to prevent” acts that could fall under the United Nations Convention on Genocide, established in 1948 after the Holocaust.
The Court, which has no means of enforcing its decisions, also asks Israel to take “immediate measures” to allow the provision of “humanitarian aid which the Palestinians urgently need”.
South Africa launched the procedure believing that Israel is violating the United Nations Convention on Genocide.
A tense conflict on the left
LFI regularly reports on the situation in the Middle East since the unprecedented Hamas attack on October 7.
The refusal of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his inner circle to qualify the Palestinian movement as “terrorist” led to the implosion of the left-wing Nupes coalition, after a series of tensions.
Deadly fighting raged Monday in Gaza where the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate while the European Union called for an audit of the UN agency for aid to the Palestinians (UNRWA), after Israeli accusations on the possible participation of some of its members in the Hamas attack against Israel.
On this subject, MoDem MP Jean-Louis Bourlanges, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, called for “a serious and uncompromising investigation into the failings of Urnwa’s action”.
But the “suspension of the agency’s funding which would lead to the paralysis of its action would, on the other hand, be highly irresponsible,” believes this member of the presidential majority.