“We are in favor of anything that could allow hostages to return,” declares the lawyer for several hostage families

Patrick Klugman was invited to Franceinfo on Tuesday.

“We are in favor of anything that could put an end to this situation and bring back hostages,” declared, Tuesday May 7 on franceinfo, Maître Patrick Klugman, lawyer for several families of Franco-Israeli hostages.

On Monday evening, Hamas said it had informed Egypt and Qatar, mediator countries with the United States, that it had “approved their proposal for a ceasefire agreement” with Israel. This proposal is “far from Israeli demands” retorted the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“This situation must stop”

“The time has come for all parties involved to fulfill their commitment and turn this opportunity into an agreement for the return of all hostages,” reacted the Families Forum, an Israeli association of relatives of hostages. “This situation must end,” abounds Master Patrick Klugman. “There are more than a hundred Israeli citizens who have been torn from their families who we do not know if they are alive or dead,” he recalls. For him, “we totally forgot” In France “that there is a hostage taking still in progress” in Gaza.

The families of Franco-Israeli hostages he represents “would like to believe that Hamas is a good faith negotiator and that a truce would achieve satisfaction.” Gold, “the experience in this regard is questionable, because there have been truces which have allowed the return of hostages and at the same time, we know that Hamas rightly refuses the return of all the hostages as a basis for discussion, even though it would still be the least of things.”he emphasizes.

For the lawyer, “Israelis, even hostage families” face a dilemma. “Everyone says ‘of course everything must be done to ensure that the hostages return, but not at the cost of it happening again, as was the case on October 7′”. He recalls the “previous” Gilad Shalit, detained for more than five years by Hamas. The release of the Israeli soldier in 2011 took place “at the cost of that of 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, including Yahya Sinouar, who organized the attacks of October 7.”