Six months after Hamas' bloody attack on Israel, more than a thousand people demonstrated in Paris on Sunday "for the release of Israeli hostages" Gathered at the end of the afternoon at the Trocadéro, facing the Eiffel Tower, the demonstrators chanted “Free the hostages” Some held signs reading: “Your silence is deafening. ” “We have forgotten these hostages in the world,” Agnès Antoine, 56, told AFP.