President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday described the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel as the “biggest anti-Semitic massacre of our century” as he hosted a ceremony paying tribute to the French victims. Images of those killed or taken hostage by Hamas were held up by members of Macron’s guard as their families looked on, in the only such state event held outside Israel so far to mark the attack. Macron described the attack by the Palestinian militant group as “barbarism… which is fed by anti-Semitism and propagates it”, vowing not to give in to “rampant and uninhibited anti-Semitism”. The ceremony at the Invalides memorial complex in Paris paid tribute to the 42 French citizens killed in the attack on Israel by Hamas and the three others still missing, believed to be held hostage. It was the biggest single loss of life of French nationals since the July 14, 2016, truck attack by an Islamist radical in the southern city of Nice that left 86 people dead. As Macron remembers French victims of Hamas’s ‘anti-Semitic massacre’, FRANCE 24’s Delano D’Souza is joined by Jérémy André, Journalist at Le Point.
‘To bridge across divide, major figures from Israeli, Palestinian sides would have to come together’
