Leon Gieco He said that one of his nephews was kidnapped by Hamas in Israel and demanded his release. Through social networks, the renowned musician and composer asked for the freedom of “all the hostages.”
Gieco called for a “peaceful solution” to the conflict between Israel and the Islamist organization Hamas and implored “the return of all the hostages to their places of origin,” among whom is his nephew, soldier Ron Sherman.
The musician made the request in a video published on his official profile on the social network Instagram, in which the artist also performs a version of his legendary pacifist anthem. I only ask Godhis best-known song, a song that has been performed by artists such as Mercedes Sosa, Joan Manuel Serrat or Ana Belén and Víctor Manuel.
“As a musician always committed to peace and today overwhelmed by the extreme situation in the Middle East, by the blindness and harshness of the politicians and by these acts of terror where the victims are always the people, both Palestinians and Israelis, I ask for a peaceful exit from this ancient and cruel conflict,” said the artist.
“For everything, everything. For war, nothing,” concluded the committed singer, who in recent decades participated in concerts in tribute to the victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990) or the last Argentine military dictatorship. .
Regarding the particular case of his nephew, kidnapped in Israel, Gieco asked for the young man’s release “for the love that unites us as a family and for the universal love that should never die.”
After his brief message, Gieco continued singing I only ask Godaccompanied only by his acoustic guitar and a harmonica.
On Saturday morning Maayan and Alex Sherman, his parents, woke up to a call and a thousand messages from their son Ron. The oldest of three brothers, Ron, 19, has been in the Israeli army for only a year. He is asthmatic, he does not fulfill his duty in battle but in an administrative position. His father, Alex, is Argentine, so Ron has dual citizenship.
He was serving at a base on the edge of the Gaza Strip. According to his father, the merchandise of water, gasoline and everything the people of Gaza need to survive entered and left there. “It is controlled by the army to see that weapons and prohibited things do not enter,” he said. “So my son has daily connection with the inhabitants, with the truckers and with the merchants who pass by.”
Regarding his son’s desperate call, he pointed out that he was listening to him tiredly: “When the minutes passed, he began to say that he also heard shots, many shots, and in the end he also began to hear voices, screams and orders in Arabic and he told us: ‘There are terrorists. Hamas is at the base.’”
In the last few hours, several personalities from the world of Argentine culture, including actor Ricardo Darín, have called for the release of the Hamas hostages.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim to have about 130 hostages, and the Israeli Government has confirmed the identity of 97 of them, notifying their families, as revealed this Thursday by the spokesman for the Israeli Army, Daniel Hagari.
Hagari also reported that the families of 222 soldiers killed in combat have been notified since the war against the Palestinian terrorists in Gaza began on Saturday, although the number of dead soldiers is estimated to be much higher among the more than 1,300 dead Israelis.
“Dear families, even during the fighting, we are making three main efforts: the operational intelligence effort, to formulate a diagnosis of the situation of the captives and missing people, and to help their families,” the general said in a statement today. Brigade Gal Hirsch, appointed by the government as Coordinator for captives and missing persons.
On Saturday, Hamas launched a surprise attack by land, sea and air, which caught Israel off guard, which declared war on Hamas and since then armed clashes have taken place in twenty points in Israeli territory.
This new war, as reported, has so far caused at least 1,300 deaths in Israel and more than 3,200 injuries.