Istanbul - Saba:
Rami Abdo, head of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, criticized the French embassy's facilitation of the departure of 115 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in a secret operation on April 23, 2025, without clear criteria or transparency, raising suspicions about the true intentions.
Abdo questioned the criteria for selecting the evacuees, pointing to the possibility that the operation was being exploited to empty Gaza of its academic and cultural elite, amid the Israeli occupation's continued forced displacement policies.
He added that France's continued facilitation of the movements of internationally wanted Israeli officials, while ignoring the humanitarian situation in Gaza, highlights its double standards and potential complicity in implementing ethnic cleansing schemes.
Abdo called for linking evacuations to the right of return for Palestinians, calling on the international community to exert serious pressure on Israel to halt its crimes against the population of Gaza.
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