(3 Mar 2025)
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Kibbutz Nir Oz – 3 March 2025
1. Mourners carrying coffin of hostage Itzhak Elgarat wrapped in Israeli flag
2. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Danny Elgarat, Itzhak Elgarat’s brother:
“We failed. We didn’t do enough. Netanyahu defeated us (by torpedoing a deal to bring Itzhak Elgarat home) and you didn’t return (alive) from captivity. The enemy who caused your death was not the one who abducted you but the one who abandoned you. You managed to survive the kidnapping, the kidnappers, and the injury for many months, and in the end, did not survive your own prime minister’s torpedoing (of the hostage deal) and abandonment.”
3. Wide of funeral
4. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Danny Elgarat, Itzhak Elgarat’s brother:
“Kibbutz Nir Oz went through the Holocaust. So, Itzik, it is fitting that the yellow badge should accompany you.”
5. Danny Elgarat placing yellow Star of David badge on his brother’s coffin
6. Wide of Rachel Elgarat- Danzig, Itzahk’s sister
7. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Rachel Elgarat- Danzig, Elgarat Itzahk’s sister:
“I hope for a state commission of inquiry to investigate this crazy disgrace. There was no mistake. There was complete blindness. I promise we will not give up and we will not remain silent.”
8. Various of mourners
9. Relative of Itzhak Elgarat breaks down in tears while singing at funeral
10. Various of relative of Elgarat singing at funeral
STORYLINE:
Mourners in Israel attended the last of the funerals for eight of the hostages whose bodies were returned from Gaza during the first phase of the ceasefire.
Crowds lined the long route of the funeral procession for Itzhak Elgarat, who was 68 when he was abducted by Hamas militants from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Israel has said that Elgarat was killed in captivity but the circumstances surrounding his death are not known.
Itzhak’s brother railed against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for failing to bring back his brother alive in his eulogy speech at the funeral.
“The enemy who caused your death was not the one who abducted you but the one who abandoned you,” said Danny Elgarat, a prominent and outspoken figure in the public struggle for the release of the hostages.
“You managed to survive the kidnapping, the kidnappers, and the injury for many months, and in the end, did not survive your own prime minister’s torpedoing [of the hostage deal] and abandonment. “
AP Video by Alon Bernstein
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