Their photos are on the front page of Release : a mother and her two daughters. Doron, 34 years old, Raz, 5 years old and Aviv, 3 years old. “ SATURDAY, reports the newspaper, they were caught in the turmoil of the Hamas offensive, which burst into their kibbutz of Nir Oz, on the border with Gaza, at dawn. From a shelter, Doron calls her husband, Yoni. She is calm, she whispers. “She tried to reassure the girls, she played with them,” says her sister-in-law. “And then nothing more, we followed the geolocation of his phone. We saw him moving, all the way to Khan Younes”, a district of Gaza. »
“ One family among many », sighs Release on the first page. Doron and his two daughters are now hostages in Gaza, like dozens of others, civilians, perhaps more than a hundred and soldiers too, there are around fifty… Mostly Israelis, but also dual nationals and foreigners.
And ” this is the question that haunts Israel and, beyond that, all the countries concerned throughout the worldbreath Release. Is there the slightest chance of recovering these children, women and men taken hostage alive? The threat launched Monday evening by Hamas to kill a hostage each time an Israeli bombardment hits civilian homes in the Palestinian enclave did not prevent the IDF from continuing to shell Gaza. Nor does the Israeli Prime Minister promise hell to terrorists. Benyamin Netanyahu is so weakened that he no longer has a choice, point Liberation: he must raise his voice to make people forget that he has lowered his security guard. However, the dilemma is difficult, especially for the Israelis who never give up on recovering a prisoner. »
The Gaza Strip shelled and… invaded?
“ If Hamas’ calculation was to hold back Israel’s arm, it seems lost, relieving Le Figaro. Shelled relentlessly, entire neighborhoods flattened under shells, Gaza already has hundreds of dead and 200,000 homeless civilians, according to the UN. But the “Islamic resistance” has other possible uses for its prisoners: human shields to deter strikes, expiatory victims to sow terror… It has promised to assassinate a hostage for each civilian building destroyed by Israel without notice. These videos of assassinations would complete the picture of human savagery. »
For The crossit is now certain: “ after the fear and astonishment, Israel is preparing an invasion of the Gaza Strip (…). Its stated objective is to “destroy” Hamas. According to experts, the operation would initially combine the air, land, sea and space components of the army to strike enemy command centers in a deluge of fire. Then a land offensive would be launched, still thinks he knows The Cross, with armored vehicles and infantrymen, to destroy the fighters and the war infrastructure of Hamas. A dangerous and uncertain battle, which could last for weeks. »
Towards a new regional conflagration?
And finally, notice The Latest News from Alsace, “the Islamists of Hamas succeeded in bringing Israel into turmoil while waiting to lure its troops into Gaza with the hundred hostages they kidnapped as bait. But their ultimate goal is to trigger a new regional conflagration, says the Alsatian daily. To encourage armed resistance movements in the West Bank, but also Lebanese Hezbollah, to attack on their side. To finally openly involve Iran and Syria. A death spiral, a spiral which is of course a trap that everyone sees clearly but which it is no longer possible to avoid. »
The world also points out “ the risks of regional destabilization that the tragedy of last Saturday may entail: (…) among the necessarily imperfect historical comparisons which have multiplied to give substance to the earthquake that October 7 has just constituted for Israel, that with September 11 has returned with regularity. In light of the American reaction and its mistakes at the time, we begin to hope, sigh Le Monde, may the Israeli response, in the interest of the populations concerned, not fuel the perpetuation of the conflict. »