The fight of a doctor looking for justice for Palestine – France

An emergency doctor in Aveyron was in mass on April 8, 2025, in the Saint-Sernin basilica in Toulouse. This Catholic tries to speak, but his initiative turns short. What was the goal? We have joined this caregiver now on hunger strike to claim justice for Gaza.

“Silence kills“. This is the message that a doctor, on a hunger strike to denounce the war crimes in progress in Gaza, engaged in a collective baptized” hungry for justice for Palestine “. Going to Toulouse, he tried to address the faithful who attended a mass in the Saint-Sernin basil.

After the Gospel, he headed for the desk and microphone. The priest approaches, takes him by the arm and asks that security intervenes. “”You are hindering the exercise of worship“, can we hear on the video shot at that time and published on social networks, this Thursday, April 10, 2025.”I totally agree to give you the floor, if you want, at the end of the mass.”

Pascal André is an infectiologist and emergency doctor in Rodez in Aveyron. In February 2024, he carried out a 15 -day mission at the European Hospital of Khan Younès, in the south of the Gaza Strip. Since then, he has multiplied the meetings to demand respect for international law in Palestine. Catholic, he says he tries to meet the bishops of France. But comes up against the complete silence of the church.

On Sunday April 8, he wanted to address the parishioners, gathered for mass in the Saint-Sernin basilica in Toulouse. “”I wanted to read the letter from the auxiliary bishop of Jerusalem and Palestine sent to the bishops of France, of which several parishioners have never heard. And so, as a Christian, I intervened in a silent church, whose silence participates, like the silence of each, in what is happening in Gaza.“In return, he says he was”rampant“The priest would have decided to file a complaint.

Pascal André explains having acted personally. But since March 31, he has committed to other citizens in a Tour de France aimed at calling the public on the inaction of European states to enforce the rights of the Palestinians.

This April 10, 2025, Pascal André is on his eleventh day of hunger strike. The emergency doctor joined with other caregivers a movement entitled “Hunger for justice for Palestine”. The collective moves from city to city to alert. “The idea is to continue homelessness to go to the places of political decision that are Strasbourg, Paris and the European Parliament“, Specifies Pascal André.

Objective: to obtain respect by European governments from the opinions of the International Criminal Court, validated by the UN in September 2024, “which requires states to no longer facilitate what can lead to genocide and genocidal unconscious.”

“The idea of ​​the hunger strike is also that people see what it is that a famine see what it is to be hungry for justicePascal André tells us again. And the emergency doctor is not about to stop on the way. “”I am just animated by my professional ethics. In my oath, it is said that healing is of course injuries, but it is also to think why people are not good and that it is necessary to act on the causes of the disease, of what makes them bad.“

This Thursday, April 10, when we join him by phone, Pascal André is mobilized in the streets of Nantes. He met a Palestinian there, from Gaza. “”I am with the small group who is on hunger strikeshe tells us. Even if it is a small drop in the ocean of mobilization for Palestine, here in France, at least they are there and we hope that they are more numerous. It can no longer last what’s going on there. This is the absolute horror in Gaza.”