French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday condemned Hamas for airing a video of a Franco-Israeli woman the Islamist militant group has taken hostage and demanded her unconditional release. “It is an ignominy to take innocent people hostage and put them on show in this odious way,” the Elysee presidential palace quoted Macron as saying. It said Macron was aware of the video of Franco-Israeli Mia Shem and called for her “immediate and unconditional release”. France was “working with its partners to free French hostages held by Hamas”, it added. On Monday evening, Hamas aired a video on its official Telegram channel of “one of the prisoners in Gaza”, showing a young woman speaking Hebrew.

Source: The Guardian October 17, 2023 13:45 UTC