French cities fly the Palestinian flag despite the government’s ban before recognition Israeli conflict news

The gesture comes at a time when France is preparing to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly

The mayors across France have reported the Palestinian flags in challenging a government order to bring them down, before joining many other European and Western countries in Acknowledging a Palestinian state.

As of Monday morning, the French Ministry of Interior said that 21 municipal halls raised the Palestinian flag, according to its own agency, despite the Interior Minister Bruno Retario, who belongs to the right -wing Republican Party, and informed the municipal governments to monitor “neutrality.” Many municipal governments were expected to join those who chose to raise the flag.

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The mayors were responding to the invitation of the leader of the Socialist Party in France, Olivier Four, who condemned what he called “the insane” of Rritlo, and called on the outgoing Interior Minister, who resigned this week, to step aside.

Four said: “I regret that the minister did not find anything better than seeking to condemn the mayors who are doing their solidarity.” “How can we say today that this is a work that deserves denunciation when we do not condemn what is happening in Gaza?” He added.

On this historic day, I was present this morning alongside the mayor @mathieuhanotin Et faureolivier He has #SainTdenis To raise the Palestinian flag on the city hall.#Palestine #on pic.twitter.com/4nimsz1ngz

Stephen Little (@stephane1peu) September 22, 2025

((Translation: On this historic day, I was present this morning alongside the mayor @mathieuhanotin and faureolivier in #SainTdenis To raise the Palestinian flag in front of the city hall.))

The Communist mayor in the Parisian suburb of Malakov, Jacqueline Beloum, raised the Palestinian flag on Friday, and the police request refused to remove it and described the removal order as a “conservative coup.”

“It is a symbolic thing, just as we did some time ago with the Ukrainian flag when we stood with the Ukrainian people who were attacked by Russia,” Biloum told the Associated Press.

In a publication on X, the mayor of the Socialist Party in Nantes, Johanna Roland, welcomed France’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state, who writes: “Nantes accompanies this historic decision by the French Republic through a lifting, for this day, the Palestinian flag.”

“Many of us have a campaign for years for this day to come” in a post on the X, adding that in “Saint-Ouuen, it proudly decorated to decorate in front of the city hall with the Palestinian flag.”

France announced that it will get to know a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly War for the genocide of Israel on Gaza It is now two years old, with more than 65,000 Palestinians killed and hundreds of thousands were wounded.

The ongoing effort will dominate a ceasefire in Gaza procedures in gathering world leaders in New York.

France’s Foreign Minister, Jean -Noel Barrot, defended the decision amid increasing pressure, describing the recognition by the two countries as “factional coordination” in Hamas and “a great diplomatic victory for France.”

Marine Le Pen, the leader of the right -wing National Rally Party, said this step was a “very serious mistake” in an interview with the local media. She said: “It is Hamastan that Emmanuel Macron is recognized today, not Palestine.” Mahatd Panot, a leading figure on the left side, is not confined, that Le Pen was supporting the genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.

Dominic de Philippin, former former French Prime Minister, called on the country’s leaders not to ignore the “human tragedy that reveals in Gaza” while they moved to recognize Palestine.