Tunisians Ask Parliament a Law Condemning Relations With Israel
People carry posters, flags and shout slogans as they demonstrate in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in Tunis,Tunisia, 20 July 2025.Photo. EFE/EPA/MOHAMED MESSARA
July 20, 2025 Hour: 9:26 pm
A group of people took to the streets of Tunisia on Sunday to demand that Parliament pass a law condemning the relationship of Tunisian citizens with Israel, whose vote was indefinitely postponed in 2024 at the request of the country’s president, Kais Said.
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In the protest, driven by the organization ‘Coordination of Joint Action for Palestine,’ participants urged Parliament to “quickly enact” a law that “penalizes the normalization of relations with Israel” and to “publicly condemn Zionist crimes.”
The Assembly of People’s Representatives (unicameral parliament), composed of 217 members, postponed in 2023 the vote on the regulation providing for the severe condemnation of any link between Tunisian citizens and the State of Israel, following a request by Said.
The Government of the North African nation has not maintained relations with Israel since 2000, when they broke away definitively despite several diplomatic approaches attempts.
The participants, who also called for an end to famine in Gaza, gathered in a central square of the capital, where activists and civil society actors met, in addition to several members of the “Convoy of Resistance,” which left Tunisia last June with the intention of breaking the blockade of the Strip.
However, they did not achieve their objective, as they were intercepted by the authorities of eastern Libya, which forced them to return without reaching their goal.
Since March 2, Israel has allowed very few trucks with humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, and at the end of May, it launched a system based on distribution centers controlled by the army.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) warned that medical examinations for malnutrition in its clinics doubled between March and June, a situation it directly links to the prolonged blockade.