(17 Jan 2025)
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Tel Aviv, Isreal – 17 January 2025
1. Yellow structure reading (English) “You are not alone”
2. Various of people and protesters in Hostages Square
3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker:
"We say from here, the violation of the agreement and the resumption of fighting is like a death sentence for the hostages who will be left behind. Whoever does not return now, he will never survive again. I demand (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu, come out to the public, the public and also us families deserve to know what you committed to them behind closed doors, if you are preparing to stand behind the agreement and if you are ready to end the war and return all (hostages) or not."
4. Screen displaying the days hostages have been in Gaza
5. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Yizhar Lifshitz, son of Oded Lifshitz held in Gaza:
“We all experience an unprecedented emotional impact that we cannot put into words. And I want to ask the decision makers, the government and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, why and why did you prevent us, the families and the people, from these feelings, why didn’t you make a full deal?"
6. Banners and signs showing faces of hostages
7. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Dany Lifshitz, grandson of Oded Lifshitz held in Gaza:
“At this moment, all the families are united more than ever for the return of the 33 abductees, which will be the first return, and hence for the return of all the abductees. We are not going to let the war continue, we will make sure to say it everywhere in the world and all people should support it. We won’t stop until the last hostage returns. Thanks to everyone and on Sunday we start a new chapter, a new history will be made and I’m not proud of ourselves, but we want to get to this moment, and it will be so hard."
8. Wide of square
STORYLINE:
The families of hostages held in Gaza called Friday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to implement a ceasefire deal that would ensure the return of all their loved ones.
The protest came as Israel’s security cabinet convened Friday to decide whether to approve a deal that would release some of the hostages held by militants in Gaza and pause the 15-month war.
Under the deal, 33 of some 100 hostages who remain in Gaza are set to be released over the next six weeks in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
The remainder of the hostages, including male soldiers, are to be released in a second — and much more difficult — phase that will be negotiated during the first.
Family members Friday questioned why all the hostages weren’t being released immediately.
"The violation of the agreement and the resumption of fighting is like a death sentence for the hostages who will be left behind. Whoever does not return now, he will never survive," said Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker.
Dany Lifshitz’s grandfather, Oded Lifshitz, is also being held in Gaza.
"We are not going to let the war continue, we will make sure to say it everywhere in the world and all people should support it. We won’t stop until the last hostage returns," he said in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv.
If the cabinet approves, the deal will then go to the government for final sign-off before the ceasefire goes into effect.
AP video by Shlomo Mor
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