(16 Jan 2025)
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Khost, Afghanistan – 16 January 2025
1. Various of demonstrators standing beneath building and on balcony at demonstration welcoming Gaza ceasefire
2. Wide of demonstrator holding banners
3. Various of demonstrator listening to speaker and chanting slogans
4. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Demonstrator (name not given):
“We are happy on the news of the ceasefire with Hamas, we thank God that Hamas stood so firm that, the other side (Israel) surrendered to them. So, I call upon all Muslims around the world to be united against any aggression and face it with unity.”
5. Wide of demonstrator holding flags and banners,
6. Close of speaker at demonstration
7. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Demonstrator (name not given):
“We are really happy hearing this news (ceasefire) because a huge number of innocent Palestinian brothers, children, women, men and elderly people were martyred, hospitals, schools and all other infrastructures were destroyed, so it is a good step to put an end the worst human tragedy and we welcome it.”
8. Various of people holding flags and banners, listening to speaker
9. Wide of demonstration
10. Close of flags
11. Wide of demonstration
STORYLINE:
Dozens of people in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Khost on Thursday took part in a demonstration welcoming the announcement of a Gaza ceasefire.
It came as Egypt’s chief diplomat on Thursday called on Israel and Hamas to implement a Gaza ceasefire plan “without any delay,” raising pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the deal.
The ceasefire deal announced on Wednesday would see scores of hostages held in Gaza released and a pause in fighting with a view to eventually wind down a 15-month war that has destabilized the Middle East and sparked worldwide protests.
Hamas triggered the war with its Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border attack into Israel that killed some 1,200 people and took 250 others hostage.
Israel responded with a devastating offensive that has killed over 46,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, who do not distinguish between civilians and militants but say women and children make up more than half of those killed.
The military campaign has leveled vast swaths of Gaza, and pushed about 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million from their homes.
Meanwhile, the Taliban marked the third anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan in August 2024.
In December 2024, The Taliban announced they would close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women, the latest crackdown on women’s rights since they took power.
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