New agitation around the Israeli candidacy for Eurovision 2025, this Thursday, May 15. While the singer Yuval Raphael acted in the Halle Saint-Jacques de Basel (Switzerland) as part of an essay open to the public, people present at the audience, equipped with whistles, copious whistles. They were formerly for security personnel.
“Six people, including a family, interrupted the course of the general trial with large flags and whistles,” said the SSR SRG, the Swiss competition contest, in a press release.
“We also want to emphasize that organizers do everything possible so that the ESC takes place in a neutral, safe, inclusive and respectful environment,” he added.
In the race for the final
The incident took place during the general trial of the second night of the semifinal, which will take place this Thursday, during which Yuval Raphael will try to win a place for the final on Saturday. The agitators had probably organized to be located throughout the room, according to our special envoy.
A video of the sequence, published by a 20 -minute journalist present at the scene, suggests the whistles and the sound of the toast when the Israeli singer begins his song, titled The new day will rise.
Exclusion requests
Israel’s participation in the International Tele-Hook is the subject of a great debate due to the deadly response led by the Hebrew State for 19 months in the Gaza Strip in retaliation on October 7, 2023, of which Yuval Raphael is a survivor.
At the beginning of May, 72 former Tele-Hancho candidates signed a petition that demanded the exclusion of Israel and Israeli Kan television from the European Radiation Union (UER), organized by the event.
Sunday, May 11, during a parade of the various delegations through the streets of Basel, several protesters protested the presence of Israel, brandishing flags and Palestinian signs “without applause for a genocide”, some using megaphones.
Israeli media Kan said in place that he has filed a complaint with the Swiss police after one of the protesters made a “slaughter gesture” towards the members of the Israeli delegation. On Wednesday, May 14, around 200 protesters organized a silent march through the city to protest against the participation of the Hebrew State.
Devastating war
The Israeli Hamas War began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists entered Israeli soil and killed 1,218 people, mostly civilians. Another 251 had been eliminated, 57 of which are held hostage in the gaza strip.
Since then, the Israeli offensive has left 52,928 dead, mostly civilians, according to the latest data from the Hamas Ministry of Health considered reliable by the UN. After two months of truce, Israel resumed the bombings in mid -March, saying that he wanted to force the Islamist movement to free the last hostages eliminated. He also imposes A hermetic block since March 2 To the Gaza Strip, avoiding any entry of humanitarian aid.
The shortage of food and drugs that have resulted in have aggravated an already disastrous situation in the Palestinian territory, despite the UN warnings about the risk of famine, rejected by Israel.
Source: BFM TV
