A demonstrator holds a placard reading "Free the hostages" during a rally in support of the people of Israel on the French riviera city of Nice. / © AFP
Jewish institutions in Luxembourg rallied support, called for a public gathering at Place Clairefontaine on Tuesday evening to express solidarity with Israel following devastating attacks from Hamas that had resulted in hundreds of casualties.
Three days after the attacks that left hundreds dead, injured, and missing in Israel, Luxembourg mobilised as its Jewish institutions called for a rally in the capital on Tuesday evening.
The Israeli Consistory of Luxembourg organised a meeting at Place Clairefontaine at 6.30 pm. The event was held "in solidarity with Israel and the Israelis, who have been struck at the very heart of their country by the terrorism of the Islamists of Hamas".
"There is absolutely no justification for what Hamas is doing over there", Luxembourg's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Jean Asselborn, had previously said on RTL about the Hamas offensive against Israel.
Germany, the United States, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom "will support Israel's efforts to defend itself" and "unambiguously condemn Hamas and its appalling terrorist acts", according to a joint statement published on Monday after a meeting between the leaders of the five countries.
The Israeli army said on Tuesday morning that it had found "around 1,500 bodies" of Hamas fighters in Israel since the attack launched by the Palestinian Islamist movement from the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning. On the fourth day of hostilities, "the army has more or less regained control of the border fence" with Gaza, "but infiltrations can still happen", added a military spokesman. Nevertheless, "we know that since (the beginning of) last night, no one has entered" Israel from Gaza.