The number of deaths – more than 1,000 on the Israeli side, including dozens of dual nationals from around the world – and hostages (around 150 of different nationalities) brought to Gaza and threatened with execution by Hamas is increasing day by day . And to the massacre of 250 young people at the rave party in Reim was added the terrible attack in the kibbutz of Beeri, in which the terrorists executed women, old men and children in a massacre that reminded the Jews of Israel and the Diaspora of the pogroms of the year commemorates the nation’s darkest hours.
1,500 terrorists killed
Public pressure for a government of national unity has also increased: four out of five Israelis would ask Netanyahu to bring the leaders of the center and the left – Yaïr Lapid, Benny Gantz – into a war cabinet. Because the country that is affected by this Israeli “11. September” traumatized and in the process of recalling all his reservists to take part in national defense, is aware that a new war has been declared and that it risks being deadly.
On Tuesday, the IDF General Staff confirmed that it had almost regained control of the south of the country and access to the Gaza Strip, and said it had recovered the bodies of 1,500 Hamas fighters who took part in the October 7 invasion There was much discussion about the power of the terrorist offensive and the resources Israel must muster to achieve its goal of “destroying” the capabilities of the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist organization that has controlled Gaza since 2007.
France: eight dead, twenty missing
On Tuesday evening, the Quai d’Orsay transmitted a new count of the French victims of the attacks: there are eight, plus 20 missing, “some of whom were very likely kidnapped, including at least one child and perhaps several,” said Catherine Colonna. And the Foreign Minister makes no secret: the toll could rise. Ms. Colonna also announced on Thursday the launch of a special Air France flight to repatriate French people still stuck in Israel.