(9 Feb 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ramat Gan, Israel – 09 February 2025
1. Michael Levy, brother of released hostage Or Levy, and Sharon Sharabi, brother of released hostage
2. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Sharon Sharabi, brother of released hostage
“I want to appeal to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – at this time, there are still 76 hostages in Gaza who are crying out, crying out to us from the ground to save them.”
3. Cutaway to camera
4. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Sharon Sharabi, brother of released hostage
“Eli (Sharabi), as you have seen, is the most urgent testament to bring back and save every soul in Israel, to bring everybody back home immediately.”
5. Wall of hostage photos, with image of released hostage Eli Sharabi (Right, with heart sticker) and his brother, Yossi Sharabi, hostage who died in Gaza ++MUTE++
6. Photo of released hostage Or Levy
7. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Michael Levy, brother of released hostage:
“Yesterday, after a year and four months, I saw again, my brother, Or. I hugged him but it was not the same Or that left the house on October 7, 2023. Or returned to us in a poor physical condition. Whoever saw the images and videos could not ignore it. For 16 months, he was barefoot, hungry and in constant fear that every day was his last.”
8. Cutaway to camera
9. Israeli flag
10. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Michael Levy, brother of released hostage:
“The most painful blow for Or as he returned, the greatest fear was confirmed: Einav, his beloved wife, was murdered on that cursed day. He hoped for 491 (days) that he would return to her. For 491 days, he didn’t know she was gone. He only found out yesterday.”
11. Levy and Sharabi standing next to poster of hostages released and still held in Gaza
12. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Michael Levy, brother of released hostage:
“While Or was imprisoned in the dark, the decision makers knew exactly his condition and of the rest and did not do enough to bring him back with the needed urgency.”
13. Levy and Sharabi standing next to poster of hostages released and still held in Gaza
STORYLINE:
The brothers of two of the Israeli hostages released by Hamas militants this weekend have called on their country’s leaders to secure the freedom of the remaining hostages "with the needed urgency."
Three gaunt-looking hostages were freed on Saturday: civilians Eli Sharabi, 52; Or Levy, 34, and Ohad Ben Ami, 56.
Speaking on Sunday, Sharabi’s brother said his brother’s condition upon his release should act like a "most urgent testament" to bring back the remaining hostages "immediately."
Levy’s brother claimed that “decision makers knew” of his condition “and did not do enough to bring him back with the needed urgency.”
The hostages’ condition and scenes of Hamas forcing them to speak during the handover ceremony have sparked outrage in Israel and could increase pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend the ceasefire beyond its current six-week phase.
The three hostages were among about 250 people taken during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Sharabi was captured from Kibbutz Beeri, one of the farming communities hardest hit by the Hamas attack.
Sharabi’s wife and two teenage daughters were killed, and his brother Yossi died in captivity.
Levy was taken from the Nova music festival and was unaware that his wife, Einav, had been killed in the assault.
“For 491 days he didn’t know she is gone. He only found out yesterday,“ his brother said on Sunday.
AP video by Moshe Edri
===========================================================
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/f019321ef137489f96b491f8bfb93ff8
Author: AP Archive
Go to Source
News post in February 14, 2025, 9:04 pm.
Visit Our Sponsor’s:
News Post In – News
