“France must respect the duty of preventing a genocide. This implies in particular that Israel should not be provided with the means to enable it to carry out acts that represent a risk of genocide.’ This is what the president of Amnesty International France, Claude Chamouguet, says in an open letter asking French President Emmanuel Macron to ensure that “no war material, of any kind, can be used to commit or facilitate crimes».

According to Amnesty International “the Israeli authorities responded disproportionately» in the attacks carried out by Hamas terrorists on October 7.

In his open letter, Samuge recalls that the International Court of Justice (ICJ), to which South Africa appealed, ordered Israel on January 26, 2024 to “prevent and punish” the incitement to genocide, considering the risk to be reasonable. “In view of the humanitarian catastrophe currently prevailing in the Gaza Strip, all States […] they have a clear obligation to ensure the implementation of these measures“, says Samuge.