Having come to meet with the French political leadership and with CRIF’s leaders, the families of soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were received by Philippe Douste-Blazy, Minister of Foreign Affairs and by Nicole Guedj, advisor to the President of the Republic. A third soldier, also of French nationality, Gilad Shalit, was captured by Hamas, but his parents have been unable to make the trip to France.
The families of the captured soldiers have asked CRIF to mobilise its efforts for the liberation of their sons.
Returning from Israel with a delegation of UDF, UMP and PS Members of Parliament who had been received by Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and other ministers, Roger Cukierman revealed that one million Israelis were living in shelters for fear of Hizbollah missiles, which on a scale with France would be the equivalent of 12 million people.
Raphael Barak, the Israeli chargé d’affaires, noted a wide consensus in the French and Israeli approach to the current conflict, and this is seen in the ongoing dialogue between the two countries.
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