William Molinié (special correspondent in Jerusalem)/Photo credits: TOSHIYUKI FUKUSHIMA / YOMIURI / THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN VIA AFP
A month after Hamas attacks in Israel, hundreds of people gathered Tuesday evening in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem for the hostages and missing people.
Israel gathered on Tuesday, in silence, prayer and tears in tribute to the victims of the unprecedented attack by Hamas a month ago, which traumatized the country. On Tuesday evening, hundreds of people gathered in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem for the hostages and those missing since the October 7 attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement in southern Israel, near the Strip. Gaza.
“It’s time to act”
Songs, prayers and anger. At the foot of the Wailing Wall, a mother cries out in despair. It has been 32 days since she has heard from her son. Anath, 24, is also angry. His grandfather was killed in the October 7 attack. Her 70-year-old grandmother has been captive in Gaza for a month.
“This is not the time to lament or cry. This is the time to act. And we must take action now. If we allow this terror to take hold here in Israel, tomorrow it can happen in Paris or New York. And everywhere else in the world,” she explains on Europe 1.
Families at the end of their rope
These hostage families are at their wits’ end. This is the case of this grandfather whose three grandchildren are in the hands of Hamas: “I want my family to come back now. I want a ceasefire now. I lost my family, they has disappeared and I don’t know what to do.”
At the foot of the Western Wall, a torch is lit. She will travel the whole world before arriving at the headquarters of the United Nations. A light to guide these lost families in a depths of sorrow.