A left -wing delegation prohibited from diplomatic entry by Israel | EUROtoday

Sunday, April 20, deputies (previously rebellious France, members of the environmental group on the National Assembly) François Ruffin (Somme) and Alexis Corbière (Seine-Saint-Denis), and twenty-five of their parliamentary colleagues noticed their visas canceled by the Israeli authorities. A ban that’s paying homage to the one who focused the MEP “rebellious” Rima Hassan, repressed on the airport on February 24.

The delegation, the place communist and environmental elected officers, mayors and civil society actors invited by the French consulate in Jerusalem, was to go to Israel in addition to to the Palestinian territories from April 20 to 24. They have been lastly prevented from it two days from their departure. A “Collective punishment”denounced the parliamentarians at a press convention on Tuesday, when the Israeli authorities invoked, to justify its determination, a regulation permitting to ban the entry of the territory to individuals who need to act towards the State of Israel.

This is the primary time that a complete French delegation has been disadvantaged of entry to Israeli soil. During a press convention held on April 22, François Ruffin, Alexis Corbière and the remainder of the delegation known as for Emmanuel Macron and the Quai d’Orsay. Messages have been additionally despatched to some macronist executives in order that the case goes again to the highest of the state. But the request had remained a useless letter on the time of those strains.

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