This Saturday, in a video broadcast on social networks and during a rally in Tel Aviv, Emmanuel Macron called for “resuming negotiations again and again for the release” of Hamas hostages. In his message, the French president says he is doing everything “to bring them all home.”
French President Emmanuel Macron calls for “resuming again and again negotiations for (the) release” of Hamas hostages, in a video broadcast on social networks and during a rally in Tel Aviv in support of the hostages. “The French nation is determined that (…) all the hostages from the terrorist attacks of October 7 are released. France does not abandon its children. This is why we must resume negotiations again and again for their liberation,” said Emmanuel Macron.
France does not abandon its children. pic.twitter.com/kbZGFXQBRX
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) January 13, 2024
“Don’t give in, never give up because we don’t and won’t accept any sacrifice. So we’re going to do everything and you can count on me to bring them all home with us,” he continued in this short message, broadcast on the eve of the 100 days of the conflict that began on October 7 with the bloody attacks by Hamas on Israeli soil.
“Now! Now! Now!”
Around 250 people were kidnapped during the attack, which left around 1,140 dead, mainly civilians, according to an AFP count based on the Israeli toll. Three French people are still “disappeared”, probably hostages in the Palestinian territory. The Israeli army announced on December 15 the death of Franco-Israeli Elya Toledano, kidnapped from the scene of the Tribe of Nova music festival in which he participated with his friend. Mia Shem, a Franco-Israeli woman also taken hostage then released as part of a truce agreement at the end of November.
“We mourn the death of Elya killed by his captors in Gaza,” lamented the president. The video was broadcast Saturday on several giant screens during a rally in Tel Aviv in support of the hostages and their families attended by thousands of people. After the broadcast, the crowd chanted in French “Now! Now! Now!” Israeli military operations since then in the Gaza Strip have killed 23,843 people, mostly civilians, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.