The Franco-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan was repressed after trying to enter Israel as part of a visit to a delegation from the European Parliament, the Israeli Interior Ministry announced on Monday, February 24. “Rima Hassan took off to Brussels by a plane from Brussels Airlines, after his entry into Israel was refused, on the investigation of the Minister of the Interior,” said the press release.
A little earlier already, the Ministry of the Interior had announced that the MEP of rebellious France would not be allowed to enter Israel: it is accused of acting “regularly to promote the boycott against Israel, in addition of its many public interventions on social networks and in interviews “.
Israel “terrorist state”, according to the MEP
Rima Hassan, who multiplies controversial declarations on Israel, is targeted by an investigation for “apology for terrorism” in France after having estimated in an interview in the “true or false” mode, after October 7, that he was ” True “that the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas is carrying out a legitimate action. According to her, the extract from the interview is not faithful to her point. On network X, she described Israel as a “terrorist” state, accused the Israeli army of having “coldly executed Palestinian children” or writes that “the international community is Israel to leave Palestine”.
Originally, the MEP went to Israel and the Palestinian territories alongside other European deputies of the delegation for relations with Palestine (DPAL), chaired by the Irish Lynn Boylan and created in November 1993. These elected officials must meet Palestinian personalities in Jerusalem and Ramallah, seat in the authority occupied with authority Palestinian.
In May 2022, the president of the DPLA at the time, the Spaniard Manu Pineda, had castigated the Israeli authorities for their refusal to let him enter the territories, evoking “attempts at intimidation”. The visit to the rest of the delegation had been canceled.