"Palestinian researchers and artists, winners of Pause, a French reception program, are still stuck in Gaza."

Time is running out. As the Israeli army intensifies its offensive on Gaza, dozens of Gazan researchers and artists who have been or are likely to be awarded the National Emergency Reception Program for Scientists and Artists in Exile ( Pause ) have still not been evacuated. On May 13, we learned the terrible news of the death of one of the awardees, Ahmed Shamia , a 42-year-old architect, who was expected at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-Val de Seine.

He was seriously injured on May 7th during the Israeli army bombing of Al-Wehda Street in Gaza City, which left dozens dead. Faced with the deteriorating humanitarian and health situation in Gaza, the evacuation of our colleagues and the Pause award-winning artists can no longer wait. It is the moral and political responsibility of the French government to mobilize all means to enable their arrival in France as quickly as possible, otherwise they risk perishing under the bombings.

The Pause program was created, as Emmanuel Macron solemnly emphasized during his speech at the Sorbonne on May 5 , "in the name of this scientific universalism, twin of European universalism."

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