(3 Feb 2025)
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Tel Aviv, Israel – 3 February 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of people outside U.S. diplomatic office in Tel Aviv with large banner (English) “Thank you President Trump”
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Yael Kalderon, cousin of released hostage Ofer Kalderon:
“We are in front of the embassy of the United States. We got back our Ofer (Kalderon). We are so so happy to have him home. And we want everybody, all the families, to feel how we feel today. We know now what a nightmare he’s been through and the hostages that are still there are going through. And everybody should come back home as soon as possible.”
3. U.S. diplomatic office in Tel Aviv
4. Poster of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander
STORYLINE:
Scores of Israelis gathered outside the main U.S. diplomatic office in Tel Aviv Monday to thank US President Donald Trump for his role in securing a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.
Protesters also called on the American president to help release all remaining hostages still held in Gaza.
The demonstration comes a day before an expected meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump at the White House.
Netanyahu, who’s headed to the United States, said Sunday he will discuss “victory over Hamas,” countering Iran and expanding diplomatic relations with Arab countries in his meeting with Trump.
Tuesday’s meeting will be Trump’s first with a foreign leader since returning to office.
It comes as U.S. and Arab mediators begin the daunting work of brokering the next phase of a ceasefire agreement to wind down the 15-month war in Gaza.
The war began when thousands of Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 250 hostage.
Over 100 were freed during a weeklong ceasefire in November 2023, eight have been rescued alive and dozens of bodies have been recovered by Israeli forces.
Israel’s air and ground war has killed over 47,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to local health authorities who do not say how many of the dead were fighters.
The war has left large parts of several cities in ruins and displaced around 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million.
AP video by Ami Bentov
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