(15 Aug 2024)
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Tel Aviv, Israel – 15 August 2024
1. Various of protesters on street chanting, purple smoke in front of them UPSOUND (Hebrew) "A deal now, everyone, including everyone"
2. Tilt down from Independence Hall to protesters on street chanting and holding a big banner reading (Hebrew): "They were kidnapped alive, abandoned to their deaths. Deal Now"
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Zahiro Shahar Mor, nephew of Israeli hostage Avraham Munder: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT; PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOT 4++
"We need a cease-fire to get them (the hostages) all back. We cannot trust the Israeli government anymore. It has been torpedoing any effort to get a deal for the past ten months. We know there’s a summit today. We put very little hope on the Israeli delegation’s seriousness to sign the deal. And we call upon the nations of the world, help us get this situation remediated. Help us put as much pressure on both parties and especially the Israeli government who does nothing but dragging its legs and avoiding signing a hostage deal. Had (Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin) Netanyahu wanted them here, they would have been here."
4. Various of families of hostages and supporters holding pictures of their loved ones
STORYLINE:
Families of hostages held in Gaza protested in front of Independence Hall in Tel Aviv on Thursday, demanding an immediate cease-fire deal that would return their loved ones home.
Protesters held banners and pictures of those held captive, chanting slogans such as "Deal now, (release) everyone now."
International mediators were set to hold a new round of talks on Thursday aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war and securing the release of scores of hostages, with a potential deal seen as the best hope of heading off an even larger regional conflict.
The United States, Qatar and Egypt were to meet with an Israeli delegation in Qatar as the Palestinian death toll from the 10-month-old war nears 40,000.
Hamas has not said whether it will participate, accusing Israel of adding new demands to an evolving proposal that had U.S. and international support.
A cease-fire in Gaza would likely calm tensions across the region and may persuade Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah to refrain from retaliatory strikes on Israel after the killing of a top Hezbollah commander in an Israeli airstrike and of Hamas’ top political leader in an explosion in Iran’s capital.
The mediators have spent months trying to hammer out a three-phase plan in which Hamas would release scores of hostages captured in the October 7 attack that triggered the war in exchange for a lasting cease-fire, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the release of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
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