Thousands gathered in Times Square to demand the release of an estimated 203 people taken by Hamas on 7 October
Thousands of people from New York’s Jewish community gathered in Times Square on Thursday evening to demand the release of an estimated 203 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
“I don’t think anyone is stressing the hostages,” said Eva Fogelman, a psychiatrist who specializes in groups for generations of the Holocaust. “Normally, when a hostage gets taken in Iran or somewhere it gets a lot of coverage.” Instead, Fogelman said, attention had shifted to the bombing“The hostages should be on the front page,” said Tani Foger, a school psychiatrist who was attending the rally.
But Erdan accused the UN of “looking away from our pain”. He vowed to remind the body that it was “established in the wake of the Holocaust to prevent tragedies like this” and criticized the UN secretary general António Guterres for his plan to visit the Gaza’s Rafah crossing to Egypt on Friday.
Adams described the taking of the hostages as an “Emmet Til moment”, referring to the 14-year-old African-American boy who was abducted and killed by white separatists in Mississippi in 1955. “Let me be clear, New York stands for humanity both here and abroad … and we call for the safe return of our Jewish brothers and sisters.”
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