Céline, 32 years old, Karin, 24 years old, Eitan, 12 years old, and the five members of the Kalderon family, Gaya’s father, grandmother, little brother and sister and cousin. These Franco-Israelis have been missing for five days and could be held hostage by Hamas. This Thursday afternoon, in Tel Aviv, for more than an hour, the testimonies of their loved ones followed one another, interspersed with tears and supplications. They are all demanding one thing, that the President of the French Republic act to “bring back [leurs] relatives “. According to the latest information, seventeen French nationals, including four children, are still missing since the Hamas attack on Israel.
“Emmanuel Macron should react today as if Hamas had acted in Paris, as if this terrorist group had kidnapped French children in Paris, as if it had happened in Paris,” insisted Ido Nagar, the husband of Céline Ben- David Nagar, a 32-year-old woman, who was on her way to a party in southern Israel. All these people are French. France has a duty to do something for them. » Before begging: “Please take my wife back to her daughter!” » Little Eli has just celebrated her six-month anniversary.
“You have the power to bring back our missing”
Meitav Journo, whose 24-year-old sister was at the rave party, also addressed the head of state: “You have the power to bring back our missing people. I want my sister back, I want my country to go back to how it was before. » The last time she saw her little sister was on Saturday, in a video lasting a few seconds, in front of a private ambulance with two other young women. “Since then, nothing,” she said, adding that Hamas had looted all the cell phones.
For her part, Gaya Kalderon saw images on social networks showing her 12-year-old brother being kidnapped near her father’s house. Five members of his family are missing. “I no longer have a large part of my family. And I no longer have a house, it was burned, she declared, her voice filled with emotion and her eyes full of tears. I don’t know where to go anymore. I don’t understand how anyone can be so inhumane? ! I just want this nightmare to end and for us all to be home. »
“My daughter went to dance, not to war”
The last news from Céline also dates back to Saturday morning, when she assured her husband that “soldiers” were arriving and that he should not worry. They were in reality Hamas fighters. Her husband, who went to the scene the next day, did not find her body or those of her friends. “We want to know if she’s alive. We will not let go of the matter,” underlined his brother Samuel.
“I am asking for the intervention of France and everyone, to have information on my children, but also all those who have disappeared,” declared Batsheva Yahalomi, mother of Eitan, a 12-year-old teenager of whom she is no news since Saturday. He was kidnapped while living with his family in the Nir Oz kibbutz, a few hundred meters from the Gaza Strip. “We wanted peace. Today, there is no longer a kibbutz, everything has been destroyed,” she said during the press conference.
She too was kidnapped with her daughter and baby. They managed to escape thanks to the arrival of two tanks near Gaza and the fall of the driver of the two-wheeler they were on. It was the last moment she saw her son. ” My heart is broken. I don’t wish any mother not to know where her child is,” she expressed sadly. Equally distraught, Karin’s father, Doron Journo, said: “My daughter had her whole life ahead of her. We don’t know if she is dead. She had gone to dance, not to go to war. » The last message he received from her was: “If I don’t come back, I love you very much. »