Marie-Pascale Radoux’s son has been in the hands of Hamas for three months. Orion, a 32-year-old Franco-Mexican, is among some 132 hostages, including four French nationals, still held in the Gaza Strip since the deadly attack on October 7.
His mother, a painter based in Labastide-Saint-George (Tarn), near Toulouse, after having lived for twenty-five years in Mexico, today appeals to the Israeli government and Hamas: she demands “a ceasefire , or at least a truce, to be able to free the hostages.” “For the hostages, for the civilians, for the children, for the families, for all these hundreds and hundreds of innocent people, there must be a ceasefire,” she declared during an interview with AFP. “This is what we are asking (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu,” she specifies before adding, worriedly. “And I also ask Hamas to take care of my son, because he had physical weaknesses. »