Palestinians mourn as the bodies of children and babies are brought to the morgue of European Hospital following Israeli airstrikes on Khan Yunis, Gaza, March 5, 2024. (Photo: Anadolu)
The president of the National Assembly in France suspended a session Tuesday after a far-left lawmaker showed pictures of children in the Gaza Strip, reported Anadolu Agency.
“You do not have the floor. The session is suspended, and I will refer the matter to the bureau regarding the actions that occurred at the end of the session,” Yael Braun-Pivet said after Aymeric Caron, MP from the far-left France Unbowed (LFI), showed the images of Palestinian children at the end of his speech during the government question and answer session.
“Gaza is turning into a concentration camp where the level of barbarity deployed by the Israeli army is such that we must speak in approximations to describe the toll of the ongoing genocide,” noted Caron.
He said recent history has never seen such “sadism,” causing 20,000 children to be “massacred.”
“Every day, Palestinian children are burned, crushed, dismembered, decapitated, shot in the head, amputated without anesthesia, imprisoned. And in this chamber, the accomplices are many,” he said.
He underscored that those who back the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, relay far-right Israeli propaganda, attack UN officials critical of Israel and welcome its ministers in Paris without imposing any sanctions are among accomplices.
“If there are so many accomplices here, it's because the lives of Palestinian children matter less to you than the lives of other children in the world. To you, they are just approximations, but to us, they are our children,” Caron stated.
He, along with other party members then showed the photos of children killed in Gaza, including Bisan Al-Hindi, who was killed in her sleep when a bomb hit her tent.
“Like our children, they have names, they have faces, they had lives to live,” Caron added, emphasizing that the faces of the children are of their “guilty conscience.”