Four organizations are calling to gather at Place Broglie on Monday October 7 to call for the release of the hostages and pay tribute to the victims of Hamas.
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Guillaume Krempp
Published on October 2, 2024 ·
Printed on October 2, 2024 at 4:13 p.m. ·
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Nearly 1,200 victims of the October 7 attack and around fifty hostages still alive one year later. To pay tribute to the deceased or call for the release of captive survivors, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif), the Israelite Consistory of Bas-Rhin, the Unified Jewish Social Fund and the TIKVA Strasbourg association are calling for a gathering on Monday October 7 at 6:30 p.m. The event will take place around a yellow piano, a reference to one of the hostages of the Islamist organization, the pianist Alon Ohel. Concertist Aimo Pagin will give a tribute concert.
A first tribute to the European Parliament
Monday 1is October, the European Parliamentary Association of Strasbourg hosted a first commemoration of the attacks of October 7. As reported by Latest News from Alsace, Likud deputy in the Israeli parliament Boaz Bismuth made the following assessment: “There remain today 101 hostages, only half of whom are believed to be alive. »
During this event, the Israeli embassy projected images of the places decimated by the attack. Relatives of victims also testified, such as Yair Yaakov’s brother. He waited for months to be released before discovering that the 59-year-old had been killed on Kibbutz Nir Oz.
According to the count of the Ministry of Health of the Gaza territory, controlled by Hamas, more than 40,000 people died under Israeli fire in Gaza. The organization estimates that more than half of the victims are women and children. A UN agency estimates that two thirds of the buildings in the Palestinian enclave are partially damaged or destroyed.
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