While diplomatic negotiations are underway to reach a new truce in the war between Israel and Hamas, the leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon demonstrated on Saturday in front of the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, alongside around 2,000 people, to demand a “ceasefire” in Gaza.
“At this moment, women, men, children, families by the thousands, hundreds of thousands, are living under the bombs, the massacre, the crimes, the fear and from this hell rises the clamor of the people, ours,” declared Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in front of the crowd gathered in the square in front of the UN headquarters.
The “only cry we want to raise at this moment is ceasefire!”
» launched the founder of the left movement.
🔴 Before the UN in Geneva, in the name of the human people: ceasefire
Find my intervention to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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— Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) February 3, 2024
“Our duty is to scream, protest and demand cease fire!
“, he insisted.
Surrounded by other representatives of his party who were also present, including deputies Jean-François Coulomme and Sophia Chikirou, he also called for “an end to the age of weapons and massacres”.
“The genocide currently being committed in Gaza must not become the accepted method of resolving problems,” he said.
He also sent a “thank you” to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, for asking “that the massacres stop”, assuring “fortunately there is the UN because otherwise there would only be barbarity ".
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The unprecedented attack carried out by Hamas commandos on October 7 on Israeli soil killed more than 1,160 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data.
According to the Jewish state, 132 hostages are still being held in Gaza, among them 27 were declared dead by the army.
In response to the attack, Israel vowed to “annihilate” Hamas, which took power in Gaza in 2007, and launched a military offensive that left 27,238 people dead, the vast majority civilians, according to a latest report. assessment of the Hamas Ministry of Health.
The humanitarian situation is critical in the Palestinian enclave.