{"id":32689,"date":"2025-08-17T05:14:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/?p=32689"},"modified":"2025-08-17T05:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:14:26","slug":"france-freeze-on-gaza-evacuations-predates-alleged-antisemitic-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/17\/france-freeze-on-gaza-evacuations-predates-alleged-antisemitic-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"France freeze on Gaza evacuations ‘predates alleged antisemitic incident’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A freeze by\u00a0France<\/a>\u00a0on evacuations of\u00a0Palestinians<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Gaza<\/a>\u00a0precedes a claimed incident of antisemitism by a Palestinian evacuee, according to media reports.<\/p>\n

On 1 August, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot announced<\/a> the suspension of evacuations from Gaza following the discovery of alleged antisemitic posts by a Palestinian student who had been evacuated by French authorities.<\/p>\n

The student, who was due to pursue studies at Sciences Po Lille next year, was deported to Qatar<\/a>.\u00a0Middle East Eye has not been able to independently verify the alleged posts in question.<\/p>\n

Left wing politicians and human rights groups\u00a0condemned<\/a> the decision to freeze all evacuations as a result.<\/p>\n

In an op-ed, more than 1,600 academics denounced<\/a> a “chilling cynicism”, accusing “France [of] exacerbating its participation in the Israeli<\/a> project of erasure and extermination of Palestinians underway in the Gaza Strip”.<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0according<\/a> to French outlet Mediapart, the suspension of evacuations predates the incident involving the Palestinian student.<\/p>\n

The French outlet contacted Palestinians who had been selected to participate in PAUSE<\/a>, a program to bring artists and scientists in exile to France.<\/p>\n

Candidates were offered positions at higher education institutions or universities in France.<\/p>\n

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The Palestinians on the scheme told Mediapart that French authorities, through their consulate in occupied<\/a> East Jerusalem, had told them they would be evacuated before the summer.<\/p>\n

They learned afterwards – well before the alleged antisemitic incident – that their evacuations had been postponed without explanation.<\/p>\n

“We initially thought it was because of the war<\/a> between Israel and Iran”, one of the respondents told Mediapart.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen there was a resumption of evacuations, around 20 June, but only of students leaving alone, without their families.”<\/p>\n

In response to their requests for clarification, French authorities urged the students to “be patient” and said they were encountering complications securing visas for family members.<\/p>\n

French officials told the Palestinians affected that they were nevertheless trying to resolve the complications.<\/p>\n

Cogat, the Israeli military agency responsible for civil affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories, denied in a statement to Mediapart that Israel had been restricting the departure of Gaza residents.<\/p>\n

‘Ad hoc or political’ evacuations<\/h3>\n

Seperately, the French foreign ministry has stopped responding to inquiries about the evacuation of sick Palestinian children.<\/p>\n

A number of children have been awaiting transfer since May, Mediapart reported, citing Doctors Without Borders (MSF).<\/p>\n

The outlet spoke to Hani Isleem, a project coordinator at MSF who handles medical evacuations from Gaza.<\/p>\n

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According to Isleem, French hospitals have the capacity to accommodate these patients but the country had not moved to evacuate them.<\/p>\n

A diplomatic source said “France carries out medical evacuations for the benefit of injured or sick children from Gaza within the framework of a criteria that has been put in place by and is managed by WHO [World Health Organisation”.<\/p>\n

The WHO estimates that at least 12,000 sick and wounded Palestinians are awaiting evacuation from Gaza.<\/p>\n

Paris announced on 20 March that it had taken in 25 Gazan patients since the beginning of 2024.<\/p>\n

President Emmanuel Macron had promised in November 2023 that France would evacuate up to 50 if necessary.<\/p>\n

In total, since the beginning of 2025, Paris has evacuated 292 Palestinians,\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to the ministry of foreign affairs.<\/p>\n

Isleem denounced French evacuations as “ad hoc or political” and intended for public relations purposes.<\/p>\n

France is one of several western states that has announced <\/a>it will recognise a Palestinian state at the upcoming UN General Assembly in New York next month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A freeze by\u00a0France\u00a0on evacuations of\u00a0Palestinians\u00a0from\u00a0Gaza\u00a0precedes a claimed incident of antisemitism by a Palestinian evacuee, according to media reports. On 1 August, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot announced the suspension of evacuations from Gaza following the discovery of alleged antisemitic posts by a Palestinian student who had been evacuated by French authorities. The student, who was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33447,"href":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32689\/revisions\/33447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}