The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that a 42nd Frenchman was identified among the victims of the Hamas attack on Israeli soil on October 7. The ministry spokesperson gave no information on the age of the victim, nor on the circumstances of his death.
A 42nd Frenchman has been identified among those killed in Israel by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas during the bloody attack on October 7, the starting point of the war in Gaza, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Thursday.
Three French people remain “still hostages in the Gaza Strip”
“Unfortunately, we are forced to increase the number of French victims of the attacks (October 7, editor’s note) to 42. We recently learned that a dual national, whose French nationality we were unaware of, was among the victims,” declared a spokesperson for the Quai d’Orsay during a press briefing. He gave no indication of the age of the victim or the circumstances of his death and recalled that three French people remained “still hostages in the Gaza Strip”.
On October 7, Hamas commandos carried out an unprecedented attack on Israeli soil, which resulted in the death of more than 1,140 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official data. Some 250 people were kidnapped, around a hundred of whom were released at the end of November during a truce in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. According to the same count, 132 hostages are still in the territory, of whom 28 are believed to have died.
In retaliation, Israel vowed to “annihilate” Hamas and launched a vast military operation which killed 25,700 Palestinians, the vast majority women, children and adolescents, according to figures provided by Hamas.