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Welcome to this live. We will follow the ceremony honoring the French victims of the attack carried out on October 7 by Hamas in Israel. It will be chaired by Emmanuel Macron and will take place from 11:45 a.m. in the main courtyard of the Invalides, in Paris. The entourage of the Head of State assured that this tribute “returned to Jewish French citizens” will be “placed under the universal sign of the fight against anti-Semitism and through it (…) all forms of hatred, racism and oppression against minorities”.
The ceremony will allow the President of the Republic to salute the memory of “forty-two deceased fellow citizens” in the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement, which left more than 1,160 dead. In the presence of their families, many of them transported from Israel by a special flight, this solemn moment will also concern six injured French people, the four freed French Hamas hostages, and three French people. “still missing and presumed hostages”specified the Elysée, which explained that it had no information to provide concerning the latter, in particular “in terms of proof of life”.