(24 Jan 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv – 24 January 2025
1. Wide of family members of hostages ahead of news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ayelet Samerano, mother of Yonatan Samerano – a hostage in Gaza:
“Dear (U.S.) President Donald Trump. First of all, we want to say thank you for the happy moments we felt this week. But we want to tell you, we still have 94 hostages. We need them all at home. Please do not stop. Please continue, press and do everything. (So) that all the 94 hostages will come home immediately.”
3. Zoom to poster of Hadar Goldin, (Israeli soldier whose body has been held by militants in Gaza since 2014 despite a public campaign to return remains by family)
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Simcha Goldin, father of Hadar Goldin (Israeli soldier whose body has been held by militants in Gaza since 2014 despite a public campaign to return remains by family):
“I want to say something to President (Donald) Trump. If he listens and should listen to this. If you want to bring the United States great again. Please rectify this ceasefire. It was on your behalf. It was your responsibility. And the responsibility is now to bring Lieutenant Hadar Goldin back to his parents, back to his homeland before the new ceasefire with Hamas, before the new ceasefire with Hamas.”
5. Posters of hostages
6. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Vicky Cohen, mother of Nimrod Cohen – a hostage Gaza:
“This week, we were all excited to see the footage of mothers hugging their daughters. Emily, Romi and Doron, they have come back from the disaster after a long time, and they can start the restoration to come back to life. But my heart breaks at the thought that my son Nimrod and another group of men are left behind, and every day that passes poses an immediate danger to their lives."
7. Banner reading (English) “Bring Them Home Now”
8. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Vicky Cohen, mother of Nimrod Cohen held captive in Gaza:
“Even these days, there are members of the government who are doing everything they can to overthrow the second phase (of the deal) by influencing public opinion and dragging Israel back into fighting that will endanger the hostages and our heroic soldiers."
9. Banner reading (English) “Hostages and missing families forum”
10. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ella Ben Ami, daughter of Ohad Ben Ami – a hostage in Gaza:
"It must not stop, it took us a long time to reach the second deal that will reunite families, we must not let it fall. I am standing here in a complex situation, where my father is in the first stage of the deal. This is one step within the deal that is very important, and it must be completed to the end, from there to continue with the other stages in the deal, until all the hostages will return."
11. Family members hugging
STORYLINE:
Families of Israeli hostages called on U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday to continue diplomatic efforts until all hostages held in Gaza are released.
They urged the Israeli government to move with the second stage of the ceasefire deal until all the hostages are released, so that the families feel the same joy as the mothers of the three women released last Sunday.
“This is one step within the deal that is very important, and it must be completed to the end, from there to continue with the other stages in the deal, until all the hostages will return," said Ella Ben Ami, daughter of Ohad Ben Ami, a hostage in Gaza.
The ceasefire began Sunday and is supposed to bring calm to war-battered Gaza for at least six weeks and see 33 Hamas-held hostages released in return for hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
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