"Stop the bloodbath": Greens, Socialist Party and French Communist Party call on Emmanuel Macron to "complete the process" of recognizing Palestine

"We ask you to act." In response to Emmanuel Macron's announcement that France would recognize the State of Palestine , the leaders of the Socialist, Green, and Communist parties published a letter to the French president on Monday, July 28, urging him to "follow through" with this decision.

"We call on you (...) to follow through with the approach you have announced. This is what our compatriots expect, ever more numerous in wanting the bloodbath in the Middle East to stop," write Marine Tondelier (EELV), Olivier Faure (PS) and Fabien Roussel (PCF) , in a letter that BFMTV was able to consult.

The three left-wing figures point in particular to the living conditions of Gazans, "threatened with certain death by a cynically organized famine" and who "are being sought to be expelled from the territories where they live."

In a context of intense famine ravaging the Palestinian enclave, the three officials called on the head of state to take "concrete and immediate action in the face of the deliberate policy of Benjamin Netanyahu's government" which wants to "make the two-state solution impossible."

Following Emmanuel Macron's remarks, the three leaders are now calling for "immediate action for the State of Palestine," including by enabling international capacity and "legal protection" for the territory.

The letter notably called for "massive humanitarian aid" for "the martyred population of Gaza." Regarding the IDF's actions in Gaza, the elected officials also called for "not giving the current Israeli government a free hand" by suspending the association agreement between the European Union and the State of Israel.

"The release of the Israeli hostages still held in Gaza is also urgent," the authors of the letter also wrote.

In a similar move, five unions (CFDT, CGT, Unsa, Solidaires, FSU) "welcomed" in an open letter sent on Monday the French president's decision to recognize the State of Palestine, and called on him to go beyond "incantatory speeches."

Announced for September, this recognition should take place "without delay, while Palestine disappears before our eyes," write the union leaders, including Marylise Léon (CFDT) and Sophie Binet (CGT), in the preamble.

"Political inaction has gone on for too long. We must impose an immediate ceasefire and return to professional humanitarian aid," the signatories said. "Act before it's too late," they concluded.

Following the French president's announcement on Thursday that he will formally recognize the Palestinian state in September , an international conference is taking place Monday and Tuesday at the UN. Co-chaired by Paris and Riyadh, it aims in particular to convince the major powers to join France's position.