AA / Paris / Feïza Ben Mohamed
France must apply the arrest warrant from the ICC (International Criminal Court) if Benyamin Netanyahu goes to its territory, former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said on Monday in an interview with BFMTV.
Calling for a ceasefire, the latter believes that “Israel’s actions” go in the direction of “a colonization of Gaza”
“We have a whole range of actions to put pressure on Israel and international justice must apply to everyone,” he argued.
These statements echo comments he already made on Saturday evening on “France 2” to former Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
Dominique de Villepin considered, in fact, that Israel “must be accountable to international society” regarding the situation in Gaza.
“The particularity of Gaza is that they are besieged so we must, at a given moment, force the doors, open the doors, it is an absolute duty,” he said.
He called on the international community to act, “despite the deafening silence and invisibility of what is happening in Gaza” and underlined, to this end, that “journalists are targeted and murdered” to prevent the dissemination of images .
“It is not by bombing territories in all directions that we have a chance of freeing the hostages, and we know perfectly well what must be done to achieve the release of the hostages,” he continued.
According to Dominique de Villepin, the international community “has an obligation to know what is happening” and “cannot leave in the dark, a territory of 365km2 from which we cannot escape” and in which the population is “besieged” and “does not have enough to feed himself”.
And continued: “The ICJ told us, a few months ago, that there is a risk of genocide.”
As a reminder, these statements come as the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants on Thursday against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant for crimes of war and crimes against humanity perpetrated in the Gaza Strip.
The war launched by Israel against the Gaza Strip following the October 7 attack has already left more than 44,000 dead, the vast majority women and children, and more than 104,000 injured.
This second year of genocide in Gaza has been the subject of growing international condemnation, with figures and institutions calling the attacks and the blocking of aid delivery a deliberate attempt to destroy a population.
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