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A demonstrator lights a smoke flare during an anti-government protest calling for release of Israeli hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants, outside the Israeli Defence Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 2, 2025. [AFP]
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that Hamas showed "inhumanity without bounds" by releasing videos of two emaciated Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian militant group in Gaza.
Hamas and its Islamic Jihad ally have recently released three clips showing captives Rom Braslavski and Evyatar David, who were seized during the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel that triggered the war.
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