Hamas broadcasts video of Franco-Israeli hostage, Emmanuel Macron calls for her “immediate release”

LThe caption states that she was kidnapped “on the first day” of the attack. Hamas broadcast, on the evening of Monday October 16, a vone-minute video in which we see a young woman, awake and lying down, injured in the arm, speaking Hebrew. She explains that she was at the music festival attacked in the first hours of the attack carried out by the terrorist movement on Israeli soil.

This is the 21-year-old Franco-Israeli, Mia Schem. She says she is being held in Gaza and calls for her release, while claiming to be treated well. “Please get me out of here as quickly as possible.” In a second sequence, she appears on camera and says she is from central Israel. The extract is impossible to authenticate immediately.

This is the first time thatThe Ezzedine al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, broadcast a hostage video from his attack on Israeli soil. Israeli officials on Monday estimated the number of hostages held in the Gaza Strip at 199. Hamas’ military wing said later in the evening that they were “between 200 and 250”.

Emmanuel Macron calls for his “immediate release”

Emmanuel Macron, who watched this video, denounces “the ignominy represented by the taking of innocent people hostage and their odious staging”, Franceinfo learned from the Elysée. The president of the Republic “calls for his immediate and unconditional release.” “France is fully mobilized and working with its partners to free the French hostages held by Hamas”recalls the Elysée.

The Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs spoke last Sunday with families whose loved ones were murdered or kidnapped, including that of Mia Shem, specifies the Elysée.