The demonstrators rallied peacefully against the interview with the Israeli prime minister outside the offices of France’s private broadcaster, TF1, in the western Paris suburbs, AFP reports.

Kept back from the building by a heavy police presence, the protesters held Palestinian flags and chanted: “Gaza, Paris is with you”, “Immediate ceasefire!” and “Israel, murderer”.

In the interview broadcast on TF1’s news channel LCI, Netanyahu defended his offensive on Gaza and told the interviewer that “the number of civilian losses compared to losses of [Palestinian] combatants is the lowest rate we have seen in an urban war”. Netanyahu continued to claim that Israel was not targeting civilians or deliberately trying to cause a famine, which he branded “anti-Semitic slander”.