2025-05-26 19:36
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2025-05-26 19:36
The French historian Jean-Pierre Filiu, who spent a month in the Gaza Strip, working for the humanitarian organization, described his stay in a book, which will go to bookstores in France on Wednesday. As the “Le Monde” daily estimates, this is a rare relationship with war -torn Palestinian territory.
Fragments of the book, entitled “Historian in Gaza”, “Le Monde” published on Monday. The left -wing newspaper “Liberation” and Radio France Inter informed about the book. The media remind you that foreign journalists cannot enter the Gaza Zone from the start of the Israeli offensive after Hamas attacks on Israel of October 7, 2023.
Filiu, Arabist and historian dealing with the Middle East, from the 1980s he regularly went to the Gaza Strip. On December 19, 2024, doctors without borders entered the humanitarian organization. He stayed in the Al-Mawasi Humanitarian Zone near the city of Chan Junis; He spent 32 days in Gaza, until January 21, 2025.
In fragments published by “Le Monde” the author of the book describes the “Dantean landscape”, which is discovered before him at night, when he, together with the humanitarian convoy, enters Gaza, and endless views of the ruins.
As he says, he listened to reports about the events in the city of byte Lahija, in the north of the Gaza Zone. “Words of ethnic purge do not seem excessive to determine the methodical expelling of the population and the same methodical destruction of buildings,” says Filiu. He also describes the tents watched on the way to Chan Junis set up by refugees directly on the beach, stretching for kilometers. “I have long understood that the gauze I knew and traveled no longer exists. Now I know it,” writes Filiu.
In addition to humanitarian problems, e.g. with access to water, the author describes – as “Le Monde” – those who gain in the war in the Gaza Strip, for example attacking convoys with humanitarian aid. These assaults “are more frequent and better organized” and show “disintegration of public order” in the Gaza Strip – he reports.
He points out that one -third of the population of the Gaza Zone, “the youngest and the most promising”, does not go to schools and that according to UNESCO, virtually all children in the Gaza Strip require psychological support. Women suffer from “catastrophic degradation” of hygiene conditions, and according to UN assessments, women and girls are increasingly exposed to sexual violence.
«Je Suis à peine de retour que me submerge déjà la tragédie de ce territire assiégé»: l'wiszej jean-pierre filiu raconte son séjour à gaza https://t.co/ao8x7gte
– Jean Michel Caroit (@caroitjm) May 26, 2025
Filiu accuses the European media that they “agreed to the ban” access to this territory, and believes that the war in Gaza was more common than the war in Ukraine. The scientist was already in the conflict zones, including Ukraine, as well as in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia.
From Paris Anna Wróbel (PAP)
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