PARIS, Monday, May 27, 2027 (WAFA) – French politicians urged the government to act in response to Israel's bombing of a displaced people’s camp in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Sunday.
Following the strikes, images from the camp quickly spread on social media, prompting opposition politicians to express their outrage through their social media accounts, criticizing the Israeli government.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, a former deputy of the French National Assembly, described the events in Rafah as “horrifying."
"The abominable massacre of (people in) tents in the refugee camp in Gaza epitomizes the actions of the war criminals and their leader," said Melenchon.
He called for all forms of pressure to be applied to Israel to end this "horror," urging France to end its collaboration with the Israeli government, impose an embargo on arms exports and recognize the Palestinian state.
Melenchon accused French President Emmanuel Macron of "doing nothing" regarding the events in the region.
Thomas Portes, a lawmaker from the opposition Defiant France Party, wrote on X: "This so-called ‘incident’ is the assassination of dozens of civilians, some of whom were burned alive following the fire in the refugee camp tents."
"Tomorrow, the international community must raise the question of the future of the IDF as a military force," he said.
"The images coming from Rafah are unbearable. They are the result of the cowardice of governments that refuse to act.
"Those in France who continue to refuse to sanction Israel and impose an arms embargo tonight have blood on their hands," he emphasized.
In a new massacre, at least 40 civilians were killed and others were injured, mostly children and women, in the Israeli occupation's bombardment of the tents of displaced people northwest of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that at least 40 citizens were killed and others were injured after the occupation forces targeted, with at least eight missiles, the tents of people sheltering in a displacement camp that was recently established near the warehouses of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), northwest of Rafah.
Medical sources confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7, 2023, has risen to 35,984, the majority of whom are women and children. In addition, 80,643 people were wounded.
Thousands remain missing as ambulance and rescue teams are still unable to reach many casualties and dead bodies trapped under the rubble or scattered on roads across the war-torn enclave due to the continued Israeli occupation's obstruction of the movement of ambulance and civil defense crews.
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