“There must be thousands of us to raise the voice of humanity and reason.” Charlotte Gainsbourg, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Anne Roumanoff, Emmanuelle Béart and even Yvan Attal… Hundreds of celebrities and anonymous personalities signed a column in Le Point on Monday October 9. The latter requires the release of hostages kidnapped last weekend in Israel by Hamas during the armed group’s attack on the Hebrew country.

“There are at least a hundred, men, women, children, adolescents, elderly people who are today innocent hostages, in the hands of a terrorist organization which shot at anyone who came in its way, who entered into homes to kidnap, assault, and kill,” they wrote. Relayed on change.org, the petition has so far gathered 4,177 signatures. Artists, producers, writers but also politicians such as former ministers Jean-Michel Blanquer and Benjamin Griveaux, the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, as well as lawyers, doctors and journalists are among the signatories.

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According to the Israeli government press office, nearly 150 people were kidnapped in Israel by Hamas and taken to Gaza. According to a press release, the armed wing threatened on Monday October 9 that it would begin executing an Israeli civilian prisoner in retaliation for any further bombing of civilian homes in Gaza. Since the armed wing’s attack on the Hebrew country on October 7, 20 French citizens are officially missing. Their situation “is considered very worrying” by the Quai d’Orsay.