\n French authorities have issued warrants for two Franco-Israeli nationals for \"complicity in genocide\" over allegations that they tried to stop humanitarian aid entering conflict stricken Gaza, a legal source said Monday.\n<\/p>\n
\n According to a lawyer for the NGOs that made a legal complaint last year, it is the first time that a country has considered the blocking of aid as possible \"complicity in genocide\".\n<\/p>\n
\n The warrants were issued in July last year for Nili Kupfer-Naouri of the Israel is Forever group and Rachel Touitou of the Tsav 9 group, the source close to the investigation told AFP following a French media report.\n<\/p>\n
\n The warrants call for the two to appear before an investigating magistrate but not for their detention.\n<\/p>\n
\n The pair are accused of seeking to block aid trucks entering Gaza between January and November 2024 and in May last year at the Nitzana and Kerem Shalom frontier posts.\n<\/p>\n
\n Olivier Pardo, a lawyer for Kupfer-Naouri, said the \"pacifist\" actions sought to condemn the \"hijacking\" of humanitarian aid by Hamas and other groups that launched the October 7, 2023 attacks that set off the Gaza war.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"If peacefully demonstrating with an Israeli flag against a terrorist organisation seizing humanitarian aid, diverting it, and reselling it at exorbitant prices to Gazans is a crime -- then there is no need to look down on the mullahs, France is Iran!\" said Touitou, 34, on her social media account.\n<\/p>\n
\n In an interview with The News website, Kupfer-Naouri, 50, called the French investigation \"anti-semitic madness\".\n<\/p>\n
\n Pardo said Kupfer-Naouri was in Israel but was ready to speak to French investigators there.\n<\/p>\n
\n The two activists are also suspected of \"public provocation for genocide\" by calling for aid to be prevented from reaching Gaza, the source said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Another source close to the investigation said warrants could be issued for about 10 other people.\n<\/p>\n
\n The complaints were made last year by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights and the rights groups Al-Haq and Al-Mezan. Clemence Bectarte, a lawyer for the groups, said it was the first investigation of its kind in genocide law.\n<\/p>\n
\n Other legal complaints have also been made in France for \"war crimes\" over the deaths of Franco-Palestinian children in Gaza in an Israeli bombing raid and against two Franco-Israeli soldiers who took part in operations in the territory.\n<\/p>\n
\n Another complaint is over the Hamas attack that set off the war.\n<\/p>\n
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