(4 Feb 2025)
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Tel Aviv, Israel – 04 February 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Israelis and hostages’ family marching in Tel Aviv streets to the US embassy building, Banner reading (English) “President Trump, Leave no Hostage behind”, UPSOUND (English) “Bring them home now”.
2. Banner reading “Leave no hostage behind”.
3. Banner reading (English) “Mr. President, Yes we can!”
4. Wide of rally
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Shay Moses, whose uncle, 80-year-old Gadi Moses was released last Thursday:
“I call on President Trump, you did the great thing with the hostage deal. And if that deal is brought to completion, you will be remembered as one of the greatest leaders in history.”
6. Protesters holding hostages’ photos
7. SOUNDBITE (English) (English) Shay Moses, whose uncle, 80-year-old Gadi Moses was released last Thursday:
“Bibi (Benjamin) Netanyahu will try to deceive you with try of manipulate you like he did to President Biden. He will try to sabotage the deal like he has done so many times in the last 16 months. We trust you not to let him do his duties. We trust you to save Israeli and American citizens who are in clear and immediate danger. Seal the deal.”
8. Pan across protesters next to the U.S. Embassy building in Tel Aviv
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Boaz Atzili the cousin of Aviv Atzili who was murdered by Hamas and his body was held in Gaza:
“Mr. President (Trump), we all know that you want a Middle East that is based on commerce and deals, not on wars. The first step to that is ending the war in Gaza and ending it now and bringing all of them back home.”
10. Protesters next to the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv
11. U.S. flag over the embassy
12. Various of protest
STORYLINE:
Protesters and families of hostages marched to the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv on Tuesday calling on President Trump to reach an agreement to release all the hostages.
“I call on President Trump, you did the great thing with the hostage deal. And if that deal is brought to completion, you will be remembered as one of the greatest leaders in history,” said Shay Moses, whose uncle, 80-year-old Gadi Moses was released last Thursday:
President Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are set to meet Tuesday as the Israeli prime minister faces competing pressure from his right-wing coalition to end a temporary truce against Hamas militants in Gaza and from war-weary Israelis who want the remaining hostages home and the 15-month conflict to end.
Trump is guarded about the long-term prospects for the truce, even as he takes credit for pressuring Hamas and Israel into the hostage and ceasefire agreement that went into effect the day before he returned to office last month.
Netanyahu’s office said Tuesday that he would send a delegation to Qatar this weekend to continue negotiations for the second phase of peace talks.
The second phase is expected to be more difficult to negotiate than the first phase agreement.
Israel has said it won’t agree to a complete withdrawal from Gaza until Hamas’ military and political capabilities are eliminated.
Hamas says it won’t hand over the last hostages until Israel removes all troops from the territory.
Hamas, which has reasserted control over Gaza since the ceasefire began last month, has said it will not release hostages in the second phase without an end to the war and Israeli forces’ full withdrawal.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, maintains that Israel is committed to victory over Hamas and the return of all hostages captured in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack that triggered the war.
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