(1 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv – 1 March 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of people seated chained to each other with photos of hostages worn as masks
2. Poster reading (English) "Are you silent to the mass killings of Palestinians?"
3. Poster reading (English) "No long in Gaza hell. Second phase, seal the end deal now! No more war"
4. Protesters chanting, posters reading (Hebrew) "Hostages first and foremost"
5. Protesters chanting, poster reading (English) top – "59 more to go" (Hebrew) bottom – "Everybody in one round"
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lee Hoffmann-Agiev, Tel Aviv resident:
"I’m here to demand our government to continue the negotiation and continue for the second phase of the hostage deal. And to bring all of the hostages back home now."
7. Aerial of protesters
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Liad Suezkarni, Tel Aviv resident:
"What I would like to happen is that (U.S.) President (Donald) Trump will put his full influence on both sides and that all the hostages will come back, and that there will be a long lasting ceasefire and a movement towards some sort of peace agreement and hopefully that Hamas will no longer be in Gaza."
9. Various of protesters chanting around fire, flares
STORYLINE:
Crowds of protesters took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday for a weekly demonstration demanding the immediate release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
Hamas handed over the remains of four more Israeli hostages early Thursday in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
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.
Hamas transferred the four bodies to the Red Cross early Thursday and they were brought back to Israel for forensic testing. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office confirmed their identities and said that three of the four hostages were killed in captivity, without elaborating. The fourth was killed on Oct. 7, 2023, and Hamas militants kidnapped the body, Netanyahu’s office said.
Under the first phase of the truce, 25 Israeli hostages and the remains of eight others were handed over in exchange for almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Five Thai citizens abducted while working in Israel on the day of the attack were freed last month in a separate deal.
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.
AP video shot by Shlomo Mor
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