(4 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv – 4 June 2024
1. Various of protesters briefly blocking traffic
2. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Dana Meyuhas, protester:
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“Because of the failure, because there are hostages held captive, the north (of Israel) is burning, and I have been evicted from my home since Oct. 7. I’m from Metula (town in northern Israel) and everything that is happening here, this government must be dismantled to bring the hostages back, and the deal will finally happen. It’s impossible to live here. It’s impossible. It’s a shame.”
3. Protesters holding signs
4. Various of protester sitting on road, holding hourglass and sign reading (English) “hostage deal now”
5. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Yossi Sahlev, protester:
“In a place where people put their ideology before people’s lives, I don’t want to live. And so I came here to cry and shout and demand that a deal be made now. A deal must be done now.”
6. Various of display
STORYLINE:
People gathered in central Tel Aviv Tuesday, calling for a hostage release deal, as a cease-fire proposal announced by U.S. President Joe Biden has placed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a crossroads.
“This government must be dismantled to bring the hostages back, and for the deal to finally happen,” said protester Dana Meyuhas.
“It’s impossible to live here. It’s impossible. It’s a shame.”
The proposal offers the possibility of ending Israel’s war against Hamas, returning scores of hostages held by the militant group and quieting fighting on the northern border with Lebanon.
Although Biden said the proposal was Israeli, the Israeli leadership has appeared to distance itself from the plan, vowing to keep conducting military operations against Hamas until the group is destroyed.
Israel launched the war in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250.
Israel’s military confirmed Monday the deaths of four more hostages held by Hamas.
Around 80 hostages captured on Oct. 7 are believed to still be alive in Gaza, alongside the remains of 43 others.
Israeli bombardments and ground operations in Gaza have killed more than 36,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians.
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