Exactly a year ago, the only truce in the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip allowed the release of nearly a hundred Israeli hostages. To protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who refuses to negotiate to free the remaining hostages, their relatives are organizing silent and exclusively female rallies throughout Jerusalem.
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With our correspondent in Jerusalem, Sami Boukhelifa
For more than a year, the same prayer, the same hope for Edith Ohel: that her son Alon, hostage in Gaza, would come home. Be brought back safe and sound. A year of anguish, causing you to lose your appetite and your sleep: “ When I go to bed at night, I say to myself: what did I do today to try to get him released? »
Edith refuses to give up. Then she manifests: “ here, at the foot of the Prime Minister’s residence Benyamin Netanyahu “. With her, other women: “ mothers, wives, grandmothers, sisters, mobilized “. A peaceful protest. To say: “ we want our children to come home “.
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To achieve this, there are two solutions: “ This war has lasted too long. She has to stop. Or Israel and Hamas must reach a ceasefire agreement that will allow the release of the hostages “. It was possible once, on November 24, 2023. It can be again.
Alon, Edith’s son is a pianist, he loves music. He was kidnapped from the Nova festival on the edge of the Gaza Strip and his abduction was filmed, surrounded by armed men. “ But he was alive ” And ” One day he will return “. In the meantime, Edith is patient: “ So, we must do what is necessary for their release “. But Edith is not sure that her voice carries, she who says she ignores everything “ political issues “. She just hopes, and demonstrates peacefully.
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