(16 Aug 2024)
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Jerusalem – 16 August 2024
1. Wide of protesters holding banners, one reads (English) “Stop Arming Genocide”, other banner reads (English), “(Simon) Walters (British Ambassador to Israel) Stop Arms License” and a third banner reads (Arabic) “Stop the War", chanting (English) “We are calling, you can’t hide, you must stop the Genocide”
2. Mid of protester chanting (English): “Britain, Britain you can’t hide, you are assisting Genocide”
3. Wide of Israeli police officers
4. Police officer asking protesters in Hebrew to move to other side of street, protesters chanting (English): ”What do we want? cease-fire”
5. Various of protestors who tied themselves with chain outside UK consulate
6. SOUNDBITE (English) name not given, protester:
“We call on the UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy to do the job that he comes here for today. To reach a cease-fire in Gaza, to release the hostages and stop a regional war. This cannot happen while war profiteering continues.”
7. Various of people protesting and shouting (English) "What do we want? Cease-fire. When do we want it: now!"
8. Zoom out from UK flag on consulate building to protesters outside, shouting (English) "What do we want? Cease-fire. When do we want it: now!"
STORYLINE:
Protesters tied themselves to the entrance of the British Consulate in Jerusalem on Friday, demanding the UK government stop licensing weapons to Israel and help create a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.
The protest comes as UK Foreign Minister David Lammy and French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné met with Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz in Jerusalem and internationally mediated cease-fire talks in Qatar were expected to enter their second day.
The new push for an end to the Israel-Hamas war came as the Palestinian death toll in Gaza climbed past 40,000, according to Gaza health authorities, and fears remained high that Iran and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon would attack Israel in retaliation for the killings of top militant leaders.
International mediators believe the best hope for calming tensions would be a deal between Israel and Hamas to halt the fighting and secure the release of Israeli hostages.
The United States, Qatar and Egypt began a new round of talks Thursday, meeting with an Israeli delegation in Qatar.
Hamas, which didn’t participate directly in Thursday’s talks, accuses Israel of adding new demands to a previous proposal that had U.S. and international support and to which Hamas had agreed in principle.
Israel accuses Hamas of adding its own new demands.
The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed across the heavily guarded border on Oct. 7, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 250 to Gaza.
More than 100 were released during a weeklong cease-fire in November, and around 110 are believed to still be inside Gaza, though Israeli authorities believe around a third of them are dead.
Israel’s devastating retaliatory offensive has killed 40,005 Palestinians, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday, without saying how many were militants.
Israel’s military spokesperson, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said Thursday that Israel had killed more than 17,000 Hamas militants in Gaza in the war, without providing evidence.
AP video shot by Mahmoud Illean
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