Several pro-Israeli French Zionists attacked Palestinian-French lawyer and activist Salah Hamouri last night during his participation in a conference in the French city of Toulouse. Hamouri told WAFA that during the conference, held to talk about the 75th anniversary of the Nakba and the flags march by settlers, a number of people attacked him, insulted him, called for his expulsion, and turned over the table he was sitting at before the security fprces intervened to stop the attackers. 'The Israeli-Zionist lobby mobilized its members inside the hall that hosted the conference in an attempt to thwart it, and as soon as I started my intervention in the presence of about 300 supporters of the Palestinian cause, they started shouting and accusing me of terrorism and calling for depriving me of the right to speak in conferences and public meetings in France," he said, adding that one of them approached the table he was sitting at and turned it over and tried to physically attack him, but the intervention of the security prevented that. According to Hamouri, the attack in Toulouse was not the first, as a similar attack took place about a month ago in the capital, Paris, considering them as part of attempts to silence the Palestinian voice. On December 18, 2022, the Israeli occupation authorities deported Hamouri, a French citizen born and raised in Jerusalem and carries its residency papers, to France after holding him in administrative detention for nine months and revoking his Jerusalem residency rights under the pretext of "violation of loyalty" to the occupying state. The occupation authorities had earlier refused entry for his French wife and children to live with him in Jerusalem. Hamouri is a lawyer and human rights defender. He worked for the Ramallah-based Addameer Association for Prisoners' Support and Human Rights. His mother is French and his father is Palestinian from the city of Jerusalem in which he was born and lived. He is married to a French woman and the father of two children. He was subjected to a systematic campaign against him by the occupation authorities, starting with his arbitrary arrest under administrative detention, spying on and monitoring his phone, and leading to revoking his Jerusalem residency. Hamouri was arrested between 2005 and 2011, and was released in 2011 before the end of his sentence as part of a prisoners' exchange deal between Israel and Palestinian factions.
Source: En - Palestine news & Information Agency - WAFA