Alice Froussard”attempted to enter Israel and resume her work here permanently, but the ministry’s recommendation was accepted, and the journalist was deported and put on a plane to France“, wrote in a press release the Minister of the Diaspora and the Fight against Anti-Semitism, Amichaï Chikli, accusing the journalist of being a supporter of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
This refusal of entry comes two days after the announcement by Paris of a ban on French territory targeting the Israeli Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, whom the French authorities accuse in particular of promoting the annexation of the West Bank.
French radio RFI denounced this decision on Thursday as “an obstacle to freedom of the press“. “The Israeli authorities did not provide RFI with a justification for this decision.“, writes the radio in a press release adding that “the management of RFI provides its full support to Alice Froussard and protests against this expulsion which constitutes an obstacle to press freedom and which comes in a context of increasing difficulties encountered by journalists in covering news in the region.“
/2026/06/11/6a2ad5e100c7b531946446.jpg "The Minister of Culture is launching a \"heritage pass\" allowing you to visit some 500 monuments")
