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Tunisia debates bill to criminalise normalisation of ties with Israel

Demonstrators wave flags during a pro-Palestine protest in Tunis, Tunisia, on October 18, 2023 [Jihed Abidellaoui/Reuters]

The Tunisian parliament has started debating a bill that would criminalise any normalisation of ties with Israel as the bombardment of Gaza intensifies and the death toll surpassed 9,000.

The draft, on which deliberations started on Thursday, defines “normalisation” as “recognition of the Zionist entity or the establishment of direct or indirect ties” with it, a crime that would be classed as “high treason”.

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