“France does not abandon its children,” the President of the Republic assured in a video broadcast on the eve of the hundredth day of the captivity of Hamas hostages.
The war between Israel and Hamas will enter its hundredth day this Sunday, January 14. It will be 100 days of captivity for the nearly 100 hostages kidnapped on October 7 in southern Israel. On the eve of this symbolic date, Emmanuel Macron published a video on social networks to free the hostages and support their loved ones.
He assured that “the French nation” is “determined that all the hostages of the terrorist attack of October 7 be released.”
They have a special word for that Three French citizens always Detained by Hamas or considered missing for more than three months: Orion Hernandez Redoux, a 32-year-old Franco-Mexican, Ofer Calderon, a 53-year-old Franco-Israeli, and Ohad Yahlomi, a 49-year-old Franco-Israeli.
“France does not abandon its children, that is why we must start negotiations again and again for their release,” declared Emmanuel Macron.
He adds: “Never give up, never give up because we don’t and won’t accept any sacrifices. So we’ll do everything, and you can count on me to bring them all home with you.”
The President of the Republic also thought for Ayton, Erez and Sahar who were freed at the end of last November, or for Elia, “killed by her captors in Gaza” whose death he said he “mourns”.
“We will fight to the end”
In another video of about fifteen seconds, posted by France’s Representative Council of Jewish Institutions on X (formerly Twitter), Emmanuel Macron appears with a white T-shirt bearing the name of a group of hostage families, Bing Them Home Now.
“We do not give up, and until the end we will fight so that they will all be free. Good luck,” continues the President of the Republic.
“I cannot be with you on Sunday, but I will be there in spirit, and thank you for gathering,” the President of the Republic declared in reference to the demonstrations that will take place in Israel this Sunday.
Hostage families’ group Bring Them Home Now, which has been pressing Benjamin Netanyahu and his government for more than three months to secure the release of the hostages, will participate.
On October 7, about 250 hostages were kidnapped in southern Israel. Since then, 110 of them have been released in exchange for at least 240 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel in late November. As of today, more than 130 of them are still missing, 25 of whom died before their bodies were recovered.
Some of the hostages were abducted after being injured, others suffered from chronic conditions such as asthma or their health suffered from the conditions of detention. Last Friday, and after the agreement with Qatar, the Israeli government announced that the drugs would be sent to them “within a few days”.
