French parliament refuses minute of silence for diplomat killed by Israel
The President of the lower house of France’s parliament rejected on Tuesday, December 19th, to observe a minute of silence for Ahmad Abu Shamla, a Foreign Ministry employee who was killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza.
Mathilde Panot from the left-wing party La France Insoumise (LFI) wrote on Tuesday on the X platform, “this morning, I requested to hold a minute of silence at the National Assembly. The president of the National Assembly refused it. Ashamed.”
Abu Shamla, who had been working with the French government in Gaza since 2002, was killed on Saturday, December 16th, due to Israel’s indiscriminate war on the Gaza Strip, which has so far killed 20,000 people.
The French Foreign Ministry condemned the death of the staffer due to injuries he sustained in an Israeli strike on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
🇵🇸 / 🇫🇷 Ahmad Abu Shamla est mort suite à une frappe israélienne.
Il était au service de la diplomatie française depuis 23 ans.
Ce matin, j’ai demandé qu’une minute de silence puisse se tenir à l’Assemblée nationale.
La présidente de l’Assemblée nationale l’a refusée.… pic.twitter.com/2xvciYsGI1
— Mathilde Panot (@MathildePanot) December 19, 2023
