Have a look at the bio, family and religion of Rima Hassan
French politician and lawyer Rima Hassan Mobarak is of Palestinian descent and was born in the Neirab refugee camp, which is close to Aleppo, Syria.
Threatened with death after speaking out following the Hamas attacks of October 7, the French-Palestinian lawyer left France for Syria, where she was born, and Jordan, where she is preparing a book on her commitment to Palestine.
Who is European Parliament member Rima Hassan, bio, age, family, parents, husband, religion, nationality and education
The Freedom flotilla headed for Gaza was halted by Israel, which stopped the activists from getting to the blockaded Palestinian region to deliver humanitarian aid. To transport aid to Gaza, the Madleen flying under the UK flag sailed from the port of Catania, Sicily, on June 1. Rima Hassan, a French-Palestinian member of the European Parliament, is one of the passengers on board alongside Greta Thunberg and others.
🇫🇷🇮🇱 "Mon nom est Rima Hassan, je suis franco-palestinienne, je suis à bord du navire humanitaire en direction de Gaza si vous voyez cette vidéo, c’est que nous avons été interceptés soit par l’État d’Istraël, soit par des forces complices à l’État d’Israël. On compte sur votre… pic.twitter.com/1DjeUCX8nd
— Mediavenir (@Mediavenir) June 9, 2025
33-year-old Rima Hassan was born on April 28, 1992, in the Neirab camp in Aleppo, Syria.
Rima Hassan was born in Aleppo, Syria in a Muslim family and moved to France at the age of nine and she and her family settled in the town of Niort, where she grew up and later became a French citizen. She is currently single and unmarried.
Rima was the youngest of six children. Her father, Ahmad, is a former mechanic in the Syrian Air Force, and her mother, Nabiha (1958–2021), was a teacher.
Her maternal grandmother was from a well-known Syrian Kurdish family, the Hananu, and she married a Palestinian refugee from Salfit. Because her distinguished position conflicted with his status as a Palestinian communist refugee, she decided to abandon her heritage and live in the refugee camp with him.
Shortly after Hassan was born, her mother fled the camp due to her parents’ terrible marriage and managed to travel to France, where she reconnected with one of her sisters.
After that, she tried for eight years to get custody of her kids again and move them to France. After her mother eventually regained custody, Hassan travelled to France when she was about nine years old.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Montpellier in 2014 and attended Pantheon-Sorbonne University to earn a master’s degree in international law.
RIMA HASSAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED.
GRETA THUNBERG HAS BEEN ARRESTED.All the Heroes aboard the Madleen ship has been arrested, the world has let you down. 💔⛵️
You tried until the last breath, We will never forget you!
WE LOVE YOU ALL, WE ARE GRATEFUL TO YOU❤️😔 pic.twitter.com/XAtlT79rEX
— Dr. Yousef 𓂆🇵🇸 (@yousef_ki1) June 9, 2025
Rima Hassan career
Hassan established the ‘Refugee Camps Observatory’ in 2019, an NGO devoted to researching and safeguarding refugee camps across the globe. After 18 months of employment at the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), Hassan was transferred to the National Court of Asylum Law. She joined La France Insoumise in 2023 to run for the European Parliament in 2024, and on June 9, 2024, she was elected.
She is currently a member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Delegation for Relations with Palestine of the European Parliament.
Hassan has expressed concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic’s implications on security and health in refugee camps and has been outspoken about the state of refugees. She has also been critical of Israel’s activities since the start of the conflict in Gaza.
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