(11 Feb 2025)
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Jerusalem – 11 February 2025
1. Demonstrators protesting outside the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while carrying banner reading (Hebrew): "Abandoning the hostages is a war crime"
2. Protester carrying posters showing picture of hostage Matan Zangauker
3. Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker protesting
4. Various of protest
5. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker:
"Hamas is ready to bring everyone back if we end the war, so you, Cabinet members, will decide the fate of Matan and all the other hostages. If you decide not to give a mandate, not to shorten (accelerate) the agreement, you will kill them in captivity. Stop playing games. Our beloved ones are going through Holocaust, give the negotiating team a full mandate, shorten (accelerate) the deal and get everyone out at once."
6. Various of protest
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Dor, protester:
"(U.S. President Donald) Trump can say whatever he wants. It doesn’t really have an effect until it’s a concrete plan with countries willing to take in the refugees. Netanyahu when he says he’s actually considering it and that it’s the first good idea he heard – when Hamas hears that and also sees that no one is being sent to Qatar to discuss the second part of the negotiations, what are they, obviously it’s a breach of contract and why would they release the other hostages? Yeah, I’m definitely worried, yeah, I am."
8. Protesters carrying banners, chanting and sitting in road
9. Protester
10. Poster showing picture of hostage Shlomo Mantzur
11. Protesters chanting, holding up red palms
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sophie Tirosh, protester:
"It is so sad that somebody who arrives to an age like Shlomo Mantzur is dead. It shouldn’t be like this, he should live in peace in his Kibbutz Kissufim."
13. Various of protesters with palms colored in red
14. Protesters chanting
STORYLINE:
Demonstrators protested on Tuesday in front of the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, to demand the release of all hostages held in Gaza.
Hamas’ threat to delay the next planned release of Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip has jolted a fragile ceasefire that’s seen as having the potential to wind down the war.
It has brought new dismay for Israelis who watched the latest Hamas handover of hostages in growing horror over the weekend as the three emaciated men came into sight.
The next handover of hostages had been scheduled for Saturday, and families say time is running out for those still alive.
"Hamas is ready to bring everyone back if we end the war, so you, Cabinet members, will decide the fate of Matan and all the other hostages," said Einav Zangauker, the mother of hostage Matan Zangauker.
"Get everyone out at once," she added.
Israel now awaits what comes from a security Cabinet meeting Tuesday morning, moved up after the Hamas announcement.
"Why would they release the other hostages? Yeah, I’m definitely worried," said protester Guy Dor.
"Abandoning the hostages is a war crime," read a banner that some demonstrators held up during the protest.
The protesters held up an image of Shlomo Mantzur, who was thought to be the oldest hostage held by the Hamas militant group in Gaza.
The Israeli military said Tuesday that he was killed during the 2023 attack and his body taken to Gaza after he was thought to be alive.
Because of his age, Mantzur became a symbol in Israel of the brutality of Hamas’ hostage-taking tactic.
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