From France hopeful its nationals will be among first group of released hostages
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna meets with Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in Paris on July 19, 2023. (Alan Azaria/Israeli Embassy in France)
France’s foreign minister says she’s hopeful that French nationals will be among the first hostages released as part of a truce deal between Israel and Hamas.
“We hope that French nationals are among them and even, if possible, among the first group that will be released,” the minister, Catherine Colonna, says this morning on France Inter radio. “We are working for that.”
France counts eight people missing, some of them confirmed as hostages, from the Oct. 7 assault on Israel. France also counts 40 citizens killed in the attack.
