A growing scandal is unfolding as the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor accuses France of direct complicity in the forced displacement of Gaza’s intellectual elite, in coordination with the Israeli army. According to Ramy Abdu, president of the Monitor, France’s embassy in Jerusalem has been involved in a covert operation targeting some of the Strip’s most highly educated residents—doctors, engineers, professors, and cultural experts—under the guise of humanitarian assistance.

This operation, said to be shrouded in secrecy and executed with military precision, reflects what Abdu described as a new stage in Israel’s campaign to empty Gaza of its brightest minds. He revealed that deportations are taking place under the protection of the Israeli army, with individuals gathered before dawn and transported to Ramon Airport, later to be sent across the border via the King Hussein Bridge.

Abdu condemned what he called “the soft face of a crime”—a strategy that uses deception and foreign collaboration to achieve what bombs and sieges could not: the erasure of Palestinian identity and intellectual resistance. He warned that this effort is not isolated, but part of a broader plan to dismantle Palestinian society from within, starting with its most valuable human capital.

France, he asserted, is not only morally complicit but legally vulnerable, having failed to launch any investigation into its dual-national citizens who have taken up arms within the Israeli military and participated in the devastating campaign in Gaza since October 2023. “How can a state that claims to uphold human rights help remove Palestinian scholars while shielding its own from accountability for alleged war crimes?” Abdu asked.

As Gaza’s hospitals collapse, with the wounded dying for lack of surgeons and basic supplies, the departure of its doctors and academics is nothing short of catastrophic. Euro-Med Monitor has called for an immediate international investigation and demanded that France clarify its role in this covert deportation scheme. For Palestinians, the loss of their thinkers and healers is not just a tragedy—it is an act of erasure, executed with foreign help and hidden behind humanitarian language.