The French judiciary has issued its first warrants for “complicity in genocide” against two French-Israeli women who took part in protests blocking aid lorries to Gaza in 2024, a lawyer has told The National.
The warrants, which were reportedly issued in July and now made public, are intensification of France's legal proceedings against dual nationality citizens involved in the Gaza war, including soldiers. About 4,000 French-Israeli soldiers are estimated to have served in the two-year long war, according to French sources.
“It’s the first time that a national jurisdiction considers that deprivation of humanitarian aid may amount to complicity in genocide,” said French lawyer Clemence Bectarte, who represents the coalition of Palestinian campaigners behind a lawsuit last
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