His relatives have not heard from him for four days. Dan Benhamou, a 25-year-old French-Israeli who was at the rave party attacked by Hamas on Saturday, is among those missing since then, La Provence reported Tuesday.
"There were Franco-Israelis at the party, including a man from Marseille, Dan, who disappeared. He may have been kidnapped and he may be in Gaza in the hands of these savages whose intentions are unknown. The family is desperate, distraught," the president of the Jewish Consistory of Marseille, Michel Cohen-Tenoudji, told the daily on Tuesday.
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A wanted poster was posted the day before on social networks by a woman presenting herself as the young man's cousin. "My cousin Dan Benhamou disappeared at the party in the South," she wrote. We have no news of him." Le Parisien was unable to reach her on Tuesday. When contacted, the Quai d'Orsay did not confirm the disappearance of Dan Benhamou at the time of publication of this article.
20 French nationals disappeared
According to La Provence, the young man grew up in Marseille before emigrating to Israel with his family at the age of 5. He was the sales manager of a chain of eyewear stores, according to a family member contacted by the regional daily. "We don't have any information that he was among the bodies found there, so does that mean that he is alive, that he has been kidnapped?" the man asked.
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Twenty-two French nationals are missing and eight have died since Hamas' attack on Israel on Saturday, which killed more than 20,1 Israelis, according to the latest toll released Tuesday. Among the missing is a 000-year-old boy, Eitan, who was kidnapped by Hamas in Kibbutz Nir Oz. Céline Ben-David Nagar, a 12-year-old mother of a six-month-old baby who was attending the Tribe of Nova rave party near Gaza, has also been missing since.
About 250 participants at the peace rave party were massacred there on Saturday by Hamas commandos.