the southern suburbs of Beirut once again targeted by Israeli bombings

Several thousand people marched on Saturday in Paris and in several cities in France to mark their “solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese people” and to ask the French government to act more.

In Paris, 5,000 demonstrators, according to the police, marched from the Place de la République to that of Clichy, to cries of “Palestine will live, Palestine will win” et “Gaza, Gaza, Paris is with you”Palestinian, Lebanese and left-wing political party flags (New Anticapitalist Party, New Popular Front, La France Insoumise, the French Communist Party, etc.) in the wind. Several political figures, notably the “rebellious” Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Manon Aubry, Thomas Portes and Manuel Bompard, were present.

In Lyon, a thousand people also marched, according to the prefecture. Among them, Jérôme Faÿnel, president of Collective 69 in support of the Palestinian people. For him, it was the opportunity to denounce the commemoration on Monday, “a year of incredible brutality”. In Toulouse, three hundred demonstrators chanted the name of “Georges Abdallah”in reference to the Lebanese pro-Palestinian activist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, incarcerated for forty years for complicity in assassination. On October 7 his eleventh request for release must be examined.

In Nantes, two parades bringing together some 350 people in total, according to a journalist from Agence France-Presse, roamed the streets of the city center. In Strasbourg, there were two hundred demonstrators, carrying signs denouncing: “Genocide in Gaza, silence we kill” or even “Gaza genocide, History will judge us”.