{"id":163417,"date":"2025-06-06T16:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/163417\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T16:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:45:12","slug":"france-probes-activists-accused-of-obstructing-gaza-aid-over-complicity-in-genocide-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/163417\/","title":{"rendered":"France probes activists accused of obstructing Gaza aid over \u2018complicity in genocide\u2019 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The probe in France comes as international pressure grows on Israel to increase the flow of aid into Gaza amid fears of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-friedrich-merz-blasts-israeli-offensive-gaza-strip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">humanitarian catastrophe<\/a>. Israel\u2019s months-long bombing campaign and blockade has severely restricted access to food, water and medicine for civilians in the Palestinian enclave.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13022997-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6722118\"  \/>The Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza says more than 54,000 people have died in the conflict. |   Haitham Imad\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>While Israel has framed its actions as legitimate self-defense following the militant group Hamas\u2019 terror attack on Oct. 7, 2023, international organizations and rights groups have accused Israel of committing war crimes during the conflict that ensued. <\/p>\n<p>Some NGOs and world leaders have accused Israel of committing genocide, though most major Western democracies \u2014 including France \u2014\u00a0have not gone that far. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/israel-killed-many-more-people-gaza-people-reported-the-lancet-found\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissed allegations of genocide<\/a> as \u201cfalse and outrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear exactly how many people have been killed in Gaza. The Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza says more than 54,000 people have died in the conflict, though the ministry does not distinguish between militants and civilians. Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of inflating those numbers, but a major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/israel-killed-many-more-people-gaza-people-reported-the-lancet-found\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study published in January by\u00a0The Lancet<\/a> found the death toll had at that point crossed over to higher than 64,000, with the majority of the victims women, children and the elderly.<\/p>\n<p>Rory O\u2019Neill contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The probe in France comes as international pressure grows on Israel to increase the flow of aid into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,44400,837,5769,2597,2663,49,6507],"class_list":{"0":"post-163417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-genocide","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-medicines","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-sanctions","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-water"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114637433971246930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}