A French lawmaker lashed out at the parliament’s president who refused to observe a minute of silence for a foreign ministry staffer killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza, Anadolu Agency reports.
Mathilde Panot from the left-wing party La France Insoumise (LFI) that Ahmad Abu Shamla, the ministry staffer, was killed in Israeli airstrikes. She added that he had been working at the French Institute for 23 years.
“This morning, I requested to hold a minute of silence at the National Assembly. The president of the National Assembly refused it. Shameful,” Panot said.
The ministry staffer, who was injured in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, succumbed to his injuries on Saturday, the ministry said. It added that the house of a colleague from the French Consulate where the staffer took shelter was bombed on Dec 13.
