2023-10-30 18:33:36
Their names are Emilia, Noam or Ema. They are 3, 8 or 11 years old. The youngest is only nine months old. A portrait of them was placed in each of the 30 strollers, above which fluttered bright red heart-shaped balloons, tied by a string. After Paris, Nice and Marseille…
Their names are Emilia, Noam or Ema. They are 3, 8 or 11 years old. The youngest is only nine months old. A portrait of them was placed in each of the 30 strollers, above which fluttered bright red heart-shaped balloons, tied by a string. After Paris, Nice and Marseille last Thursday, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif), the Israelite Cult Association of Gironde (Acig) and the Citizen Collective of Bordeaux Parents organized an empty stroller operation, Monday October 30, at noon in Bordeaux, at the same time as in Grenoble and Lyon.
Liberation of children: “A priority”
Behind the slogan “Let’s bring them home”, around a hundred people gathered in silence, some lighting a small candle, others hugging each other to let the emotion express itself, all with same desire to draw attention to the thirty children kidnapped by Hamas during the attack of October 7. “We hope that French and European diplomacy will weigh in and put pressure on it so that the release of these child hostages from Hamas is a priority,” commented Monday followingnoon Albert Massiah, president of Crif Bordeaux Aquitaine.
Candles were lit as a sign of hope.
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Some passers-by, who had probably not planned to stop at Place Gambetta, finally stopped, out of curiosity or solidarity, in front of the empty strollers. “These are our families, our friends, citizens,” says Bordeaux rabbi Moshe Taieb. No human being can remain indifferent to the 230 Israeli hostages. We must maintain hope and expose the names and faces of the children who are part of it. This allows them to be identified. »
More than 1,400 people have died since the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement in Israel. Hamas, for its part, claims that more than 8,300 people have been killed in Israeli bombings since the start of the war. Monday in Bordeaux, it was “to alert on the emergency,” underlined Albert Massiah. And to bring our testimony to the unspeakable.”
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