Rima Hassan, a lawyer and human rights activist, and the first French of Palestinian origin to be elected to membership European ParliamentIt was born in 1992 in the Nair Palestinian refugee camp near the city Aleppo In Syria.
It was known for its contribution to highlighting the crimes and the extermination war committed by the Israeli occupation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
I joined the Madeleine ship -the affiliation For Freedom Fleet– Which turned to Gaza Strip In June 2025, with the aim of breaking the siege imposed on its population since mid -2007.
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Rima Hassan was born on April 28, 1992 in the Nair Palestinian refugee camp near Aleppo city Northern Syria, and it is one of the largest Palestinian camps in Syria.
The origins of her family, from the side of her father, are due to the village of Al -Barwa, east of the city of Acre, which was seized by the Israeli occupation.
The camp was established between 1948 and 1950 to accommodate the refugees who were forcibly displaced from Palestine after Nakba Which left the displacement of at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homes at the hands of gangs Zionism Armed.
When she was nine years old, Rima Hassan moved to France and grew up there, and when she was 18 years old, she got citizenship and became a French citizen in 2010.
Study and scientific training
I was elected to the 2003 Municipal Council for Children in the French city of Nior, in which she was studying at Ernst Perusheon Elementary School.
She obtained the baccalaureate (high school) in the science of science from the “Lavinice Vert” secondary school in 2011.
She continued her university studies in the law, as she spent two years at Evry University, south of the capital, Paris, and then joined one year at the University of Montpellier until 2014, and in 2016 she received a master’s degree in international law from the University of Pantheon Sorbonne in Paris.
Her Master’s thesis was a comparative study between a system The apartheid in South Africa And Israeli practices in the Palestinian territories from a perspective International law.
Practical and legal experience
Rima Hassan began her career in the field of human rights and law after her graduation.
In 2019, the “Refugee Camps Observatory”, a non -governmental organization aimed at documenting and protecting the conditions of refugees in the world, was a great turning point in its life, as it drew attention to many camps in the world and caring for them in light of the ongoing conflicts.
After the Israeli aggression on Gaza, which followed an operation Al -Aqsa Flood On October 7, 2023, Rima launched “the work group for Palestine In France, “with the aim of advocating the Palestinian people and raising awareness of the crimes of the occupation.
Achievements and attitudes
Forbes magazine was chosen by a list of forty “inspiring women” in 2023, and on June 9, 2024 nominated her France’s parental party In his list of the European Parliament elections, was elected, and became the first French of Palestinian origin to hold this position.
Rima faced criticism for the position of her party supporting the Palestinian cause, and the condemnation of Israeli crimes in Gaza, and sparked controversy after raising the slogan “Palestine is free from the river to the sea.”
Rima Hassan revealed in an interview with Al -Jazeera channelThat her nomination for the European elections exposed her to “great political and legal pressure.” “She was threatened, insulted and racist against the Palestinians,” she said, stressing that it “will carry the Palestinian issue to the European Parliament.”
She added that she “considers the Palestinian issue a European affair, because of Europe’s responsibility to divide the region after the end World War I Between French and British colonialism according to the agreement Sykes -Picot“.
In a letter of announcement that was nominated by the “Parent France” party, and in the presence of the party’s founder, presidential candidate Jean -Luke Milanshon, Rima Hassan started her announcement by verses of a poem Mahmoud Darwish “Who am I, without exile?”
Its role in the Freedom Fleet
Rima Hassan was a activist on board Madeleine ship The Freedom Fleet, which started in June 2025 from the port of Catania on Sicily, southern Italy, towards the Gaza Strip, in an attempt to break the Israeli siege, and to demand the cessation of aggression against civilians in the Strip.
The ship was carrying a symbolic shipment of humanitarian and medical assistance and relief material Mediterranean Sea.
Rima Hassan wrote as she predicted in detention Israeli occupation Its crew of the ship in a tweet on X platform “When they arrest us, I will look at them as Al -Arabi bin Mahdi (resisting leaders Algerian revolution against French colonialism) To the users of his land: calm, reassured to the liberation of Palestine. They are occupied by this land and we are its roots. “
“I think that we are the ones who liberate Palestine, but in fact it is the one that liberates us every day more and more,” she said in terms of her firm belief in the issue of her homeland.
And accusations of everyone who has a hand in the suffering of its people: “He was responsible for the Western colonial collusion, held responsibility for Arab cheese, who was held responsible for the collusion of the Palestinian bourgeoisie.”
She also expressed her absolute support “for resistance, revolutionaries, rebels, disobedience, dreamers, and rejectionists, and for those who have never adapted to the chaos of this world.”
And she ended her tweet with a phrase, an Arab bin Mahdi, “threw the revolution to the street, embraced by the people.”