The leaders of the French left Jean-Luc Melanchon and Mathilde Fano mocked Israel's decision to ban them from entering the Israeli entity on November 12.
￭ "They are forbidding me to enter a territory that I did not ask to enter," Melanchon told Franceinfo.
￭ "I'm still looking for the bad news," Fano wrote on X.
￭ Israel's Foreign Minister, Gideon Sa'ar, accused the two politicians of spreading "blood plots" against Israel, while citing their political positions and Melenchon pledged to send French Navy ships to escort aid flotillas to Gaza.
￭ The French Foreign Minister, Jean-Noel Barro, condemned the ban as a "demagogic decision" by a government that "repeatedly violated international law", while he also accused the Melanchon party of exploiting the Palestinian issue for political gain.