(28 Feb 2025)
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Tel Aviv, Israel – 28 February 2025
1. Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer players and fans holding poster showing Tsachi Idan, reading (Hebrew) “Tsachi Idan, red in heart”
2. Close of poster
3. Fans applauding
4. Noam Idan Ben Azra, sister of hostage Tsachi Idan receiving Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer team scarf
5. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Noam Idan Ben Azra, sister of hostage Tsachi Idan:
“The task of our leaders was to protect Tsachi, to keep him alive and they made very difficult decisions but with unbearable results. My mission was for Chachi to return, and I fulfilled this mission."
6. Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer fans holding Tsachi Idan’s photo
7. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Noam Idan Ben Azra, sister of hostage Tsachi Idan
“Today, I say goodbye to my dear brother. I asked him for forgiveness, on our behalf, that he was returned in a coffin, instead of walking as he was taken. (Crying) A red call will continue until the release of the last hostage."
8. Mid of fans
9. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Dudu, a friend of hostage Tsachi Idan
“Tsachi was more than a Hapoel team fan, Tsachi was and continues to be the sane voice in the room with an attitude that everything will be fine. And not everything has to be done through battles, and you don’t have to fight for everything. The real freedom is to do what you want and not let things affect you."
10. Fans chanting the Israeli national anthem.
STORYLINE:
Players from the Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer team and their fans took part in a memorial ceremony for Tzachi Idan at the stadium of his beloved team in Tel Aviv on Friday.
“Today, I say goodbye to my dear brother" his sister, Noam Idan Ben Azra, said in a speech at the ceremony "I asked him for forgiveness, on our behalf, that he was returned in a coffin not walking as he was taken.”
Idan was one of four hostages bodies Hamas handed over to the Red Cross Thursday in exchange for Israel’s release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, days before the first phase of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip was to end.
They are the last four to be released during the first phase of the truce, which is set to end Saturday. Israel and Hamas have yet to negotiate the next phase, and dozens of hostages are still held in Gaza.
Idan was taken from Kibbutz Nahal Oz. His eldest daughter, Maayan, was killed as militants shot through the door of their saferoom.
Hamas militants broadcast themselves on Facebook live holding the Idan family hostage in their home, as his two younger children pleaded with the militants to let them go. Only Tsachi was taken to Gaza.
Idan worked in tech and loved playing soccer, volleyball and tennis, according to the hostages forum. Netanyahu’s office said Idan was killed in captivity.
Hamas-led militants took 251 hostages during their Oct. 7, 2023, attack that launched the war in Gaza.
Fifty-nine hostages remain in Gaza, roughly half of whom are believed to be dead. The others were released in previous agreements, rescued, or their bodies were recovered.
Israel’s military campaign has killed over 48,000 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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