(15 Feb 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel – 15 February 2025
1. Top shot of protesters
2. Protesters holding up banners reading (English) "73 more to go" and (Hebrew) "First of all – all the hostages"
3. Protester holding up sign reading (English) "Bring them all home"
4. Protesters with sign reading "Oy vey"
5. Protesters with posters reading (English) "Netanyahu protector of Qatar"
6. Protesters with posters reading (English) "End the bloodshed" "How much blood will be spilled?" (Hebrew) "You’re messing with the wrong mother", "The pains of the deal (to release hostages) are better than the torments of abandonment"
7. Wide of protesters surrounding words "All of them now!"
STORYLINE:
Protesters held their weekly demonstration, Saturday, in Tel Aviv demanding the immediate release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
Earlier in the day, Israel and Hamas completed the sixth exchange of hostages for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners – with just over two weeks remaining in the initial phase of their fragile Gaza ceasefire.
Israelis expressed some relief as the three hostages — Argentinian-Israeli Iair Horn, 46; American-Israeli Sagui Dekel Chen, 36; and Russian-Israeli Alexander Troufanov, 29 — appeared to be in better condition than the emaciated hostages freed a week ago.
In the first phase of the ceasefire deal, a total of 33 hostages in Gaza — eight of whom are dead — are supposed to be freed in exchange for almost 2-thousand Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Five Thai citizens who were working in Israel on the day of the attack were freed last month as part of a separate deal.
The ceasefire and release of hostages have sparked both hope and fear among Israelis.
Many worry that the deal could collapse before all the hostages return or that the number of captives who have died is higher than expected.
Hamas-led militants took 251 hostages during their October 7, 2023, attack that launched the war in Gaza.
More than 70 hostages remain in Gaza, although nearly half are believed to be dead.
The others were released, rescued, or their bodies were recovered.
Israel’s military campaign has killed over 48-thousand Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many were fighters but says more than half were women or children.
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