(19 Jan 2025)
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Washington – 19 January 2025
1. Various of people at rally and signs reading (English): "Thank you President Trump you can bring them all home" And "President Trump you can make it happen, bring them home now"
2. Pan left of people holding pictures of hostages UPSOUND (English) "What do we want? All of them. When do we want them? Now. Bring them home, now."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Liran Berman, brother of hostages Gali and Ziv Berman:
"President Trump, I am asking you to keep fighting for my brothers and for all the other remaining hostages in Gaza. My dream is to become an uncle for my brothers. They still have a future. They can still be home. Please help me achieve my dream. Please ensure the job is finished and that they all come home before it’s too late."
4. Pan right of people holding pictures of hostages
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Neutra, brother of deceased hostage Omer Neutra:
"We trust that the president and his team will make sure that the releases continue until the last hostage. The first phase, we hope, will bring home the remaining women, children and elderly. And we have to make sure that the remaining hostages, our brothers, fathers and sons, will come home as well. And we must make sure that the deceased are returned respectfully to their families to an honorable, final resting place. My brother Omer chose to put his own life at risk to save thousands of others. We owe it to him to rescue the people he gave his life to save and to bring him and the rest home."
6. Various of the rally and protesters chanting UPSOUND (English) "Bring them home, now."
STORYLINE:
Relatives of hostages still being held in Gaza have urged President-elect Donald Trump to secure their loved ones release ahead of Inauguration Day.
Dozens of family members gathered in front of the National Mall in Washington DC on Sunday, holding photos of their family members still being held by Hamas.
Liran Berman, the brother of hostages Gali and Ziv Berman, said his brothers "still have a future" as he urged Trump to "keep fighting" for their release.
"Please help me achieve my dream. Please ensure the job is finished and that they all come home before it’s too late," said Berman.
A fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold on Sunday, with the first three hostages released as part of the agreement arriving in Israel.
Footage showed the three women walking to Red Cross vehicles in Gaza City, surrounded by a crowd that swelled into the thousands as people held up cellphones and scrambled onto cars.
The vehicles were accompanied by masked, armed men who wore green Hamas headbands and struggled to guard the handover.
The 42-day first phase of the ceasefire should see 33 hostages gradually returned and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees released.
The next release of hostages is expected on Saturday.
There also should be a surge of humanitarian aid, with hundreds of trucks entering Gaza daily, far more than Israel allowed before.
The truce ushers in an initial six weeks of calm and raises hopes for the release of nearly 100 remaining hostages and an end to the devastating 15-month war.
The ceasefire, which went into force at 11:15 a.m. local time (0915 GMT) after an almost three-hour delay, was brokered by mediators the United States, Qatar and Egypt in months of indirect talks between the warring sides.
The release of the first three hostages is expected to be followed by the release from Israel of 90 Palestinian prisoners as part of the first stage of the ceasefire deal.
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