2023-11-19 17:51:18
Nicolas Rouger Jerusalem Published on November 19, 2023 at 1:07 p.m. / Modified on November 19, 2023 at 6:52 p.m.
More than 30,000 of them arrived Saturday evening in the Holy City, singing the Israeli national anthem, Hatikva, “hope”. The hope for them today is to find their family members, held for almost a month and a half in Gaza: for five days, the families of the nearly 240 Israeli hostages walked from Tel- Aviv in Jerusalem to challenge a government whose silence they condemn. “We walked non-stop, I hurt everywhere,” said Orin Ganz-Zach, mother of Eden Zach-Zacharia, 28, kidnapped during the rave party. His messy blond hair betrays the difficulty of this climb, but this pain “has nothing to do with the pain I have in my heart. My daughter is my whole world.” Even after telling her story “thousands of times,” she still struggles to contain her emotion.
In the hearts of the families, there is gratitude: we would like to thank the citizens of this united Israel who joined them in this march. This “beautiful Israel” which dropped everything to engage with under-equipped soldiers or farmers without labor. That of the heroes, whose portraits are still playing repeatedly on television, who only thought of saving lives at the risk of their own, on October 7.
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