in Jerusalem, the despair of a mother who demonstrates for the return of her hostage son to Gaza

Exactly a year ago, the only truce in the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip allowed the release of nearly a hundred Israeli hostages. To protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who refuses to negotiate to free the remaining hostages, their relatives are organizing silent and exclusively female rallies throughout Jerusalem.

With our correspondent in Jerusalem, Sami Boukhelifa

For more than a year, the same prayer, the same hope for Edith Ohel: that her son Alon, hostage in Gaza, would come home. Be brought back safe and sound. A year of anguish, causing you to lose your appetite and your sleep: “ When I go to bed at night, I say to myself: what did I do today to try to get him released? »

Edith refuses to give up. So, she manifests: “ here, at the foot of the Prime Minister’s residence Benjamin Netanyahu “. With her, other women: “ mothers, wives, grandmothers, sisters, mobilized “. A peaceful protest. To say: “ we want our children to come home ».

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