Several Islamists and media houses painted the terrorists as 'generous' for providing the released hostages with tea and cookies. However, one of the released women talked to the media and said that she was assaulted and that she had to see hell on this Earth due to Hamas terrorists.
French President Emmanuel Macron proposed expanding a multinational coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to include the war against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Gaza.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has drawn a parallel between the terrorist attacks by Lashkar-e-Taiba in Mumbai and Hamas in Israel, emphasising that all acts of terrorism are "unlawful and unjustifiable."