France, Aug. 4 -- A student from Gaza who had been studying in France on a scholarship left for Qatar Sunday, ordered out over anti-Semitic comments found on her social media accounts, the foreign ministry said.

Foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot "stressed the unacceptable nature of the comments made by Nour Attaalah, a Gazan student, before she entered French territory", said the ministry statement.

"Given their seriousness, Ms Attaalah could not remain on French territory. She left France today to go to Qatar to continue her studies there," it added.

The student's lawyer, Ossama Dahmane, said Attaalah had chosen to "pursue her studies in another country in a spirit of appeasement and to guarantee her security", even if "she firmly den...