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The French president called for the release of “all hostages” and “on both sides.”
The Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant attack was the deadliest against Jews in France since the Holocaust, leaving six dead and 22 people injured.
The 25-year-old Palestinian woman allegedly called on Hamas to murder hostages, described Hitler as a “visionary.”
“I’m with killing them wherever they are: children, elderly people and soldiers,” Fady Hanona wrote in 2013.
The Israeli minister for Diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism criticized the moves by Canada, France and the United Kingdom.
Olivier Pardo told French authorities that a former convict said he had been approached by Hezbollah operatives in Senegal.
The U.S. president “can be a catalyst for an end to the immediate crisis in Gaza and potentially a resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the long term,” the Saudi foreign minister said.
“It’s easy to come to the General Assembly to deliver a nice speech, but at the end of the day, you have to deal with Hamas,” the Israeli envoy told JNS.
Israel did the same, not attending the conference co-chaired by the foreign ministers of France and Saudi Arabia.
“For us, this is a victory. But we have to say: without all the hostages coming home, it’s not a full victory. And that’s also why we brought Ofer to this enormous stage. To call for that from here,” said IPT owner Sylvan Adams.
Representatives of more than 55 countries are slated to address the two-day U.N. event.
“We don’t want to talk only to the Palestinian Authority, but also to you,” the French interlocutor told the Hamas officials.
