demonstration in front of TF1 headquarters during the broadcast of an interview with Benyamin Netanyahu

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The head of the Israeli government hammered home his arguments this Thursday evening on the French television channel LCI, dependent on the TF1 group. In the eyes of Benyamin NetanyahuPalestinian side at Gaza“ the number of civilian losses relative to combatant losses » constitutes “ the lowest rate seen in an urban war “. According to him, accusing the Israeli army of targeting civilians, or of starving them, is ” anti-Semitic slander “.

Mr. Netanyahu had been questioned since Israel by journalist Darius Rochebin. An interview recorded beforehand and broadcast at 8:30 p.m. Paris time. But before 7 p.m., near the group’s headquarters, after the announcement in the afternoon of the broadcast of the Israeli Prime Minister’s intervention, the first protesters began to express their indignation. The rally continued at 10 p.m.

The demonstrators arrived in three processions, encouraged by elected officials from La France insoumise in particular. Some managed to block the George-Pompidou route. But unable to reach the tower, protected by a large police force, everyone gathered in a single group, surrounded by a cordon of police, shouting “ Gaza, Gaza, Paris is with you “, ” a ceasefire now “, or ” Israel murderer “. Protesters accuse Israel of “ genocide “.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s thirty-minute interview comes amid a wave of international indignation, a few days after the deadly bombing of a displaced persons camp in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, last Sunday. An overpopulated town, on the Egyptian border, where the Israeli army continues its strikes and its ground offensive, with the stated objective of eliminating the last battalions of Hamas.