French journalist Alice Froussard, a longtime correspondent covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for RFI and other French-language outlets, was denied entry to Israel on 11 June 2026, held for nearly ten hours at Ben Gurion Airport, and expelled after repeated interrogations. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned the move as "unjustifiable," warning that it signals a deliberate strategy to shut international press out of the West Bank (the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory) — mirroring the near-total ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza that has been in place for close to three years. The case has taken a diplomatic dimension: an Israeli minister publicly linked the expulsion to France's recent decision to bar far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a claim RSF called deeply alarming, saying it is unacceptable for a journalist to be punished for the policies of her government.