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France suspends Gaza evacuations after student anti-Semitism debate

2025-08-01 20:20:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

France suspends Gaza evacuations after student anti-Semitism debate

France has suspended its program to host Palestinians leaving Gaza.

The freeze will be in effect while authorities investigate a Palestinian student in France who has been accused of making anti-Semitic remarks online, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said.

The 25-year-old woman was on a scholarship in the northern French city of Lille and will have to leave the country after her university withdrew her accreditation.

France has helped more than 500 people leave Gaza since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out following the attacks of October 7, 2023.

The woman, who arrived in France in July, was expected to begin attending classes at Sciences Po Lille university in the fall.

She has since been deregistered, the university said.

France's Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau wrote on X that he had requested the account be closed and legal action taken. "Hamas propagandists have no place in our country," he added.

Palestinians already in France through this scheme will be "subject to new scrutiny" after "the failures that brought this young woman here," he said.

Retailleau said that security checks conducted by state services and Israeli authorities did not reveal these "unacceptable and disturbing remarks."

Sciences Po Lille University confirmed the woman's comments to AFP and told the news agency that the posts were "in direct contradiction to the values upheld" by the institution.

The woman was part of a group evacuated from Gaza as part of a program run by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the director of Sciences Po Lille told French newspaper Libération./ CNA

 





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