France bans Zionist delegation from arms expo

Tehran, Qodsna - According to Al Jazeera, France’s announcement came just days after the Zionist regime bombed a camp for displaced people in Rafah in southern Gaza.

France has banned Zionist companies from participating in this year’s annual Eurosatory arms and defense industry exhibition in Villepinte near Paris next month, the event’s organizers and French authorities have said.

The French Defense Ministry suggested that the decision was linked to Paris’s opposition to the continuing Zionist assault on Rafah in southern Gaza.

Conditions are no longer met to host Zionist companies at the show at a time when the President is calling for Israel to cease operations in Rafah, the ministry told the Reuters news agency.

Seventy-four Zionist firms were set to attend the event from June 17 to 21 at fairgrounds close to Paris’s main international airport, with Coges previously saying about 10 of them were to exhibit weapons.

Last week, a group of activists issued a legal warning and urged Coges to take measures to avoid buying and selling weapons that could be used in “crimes” committed in Gaza or other parts of occupied Palestine.

In previous weeks, France joined other Western nations in urging the Zionist regime against invading Rafah, which had become home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians forcibly displaced from other parts of Gaza.

French President Emmanuel Macron also said he was “outraged” over the Zionist air raid that killed 45 people in the encampment.

At least 36,284 Palestinians have been martyred and 82,057 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7, 2023.