(2 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jerusalem – 2 March 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of protesters
2. Close of banner reading (Hebrew) "We are all hostages"
3. Display at protest showing a roulette wheel with writing reading: (English) “No More Bets”
4. Mid of protesters
5. Close of banner reading (Hebrew): “Until everyone is free in our country”
6. Close of banner reading (English): “Stop the war”
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Amiram Strulov, protester:
“We need to end the war immediately. As (United States) President (Donald) Trump said, stop this crazy war immediately, release them. They are not going anywhere, the Hamas, we can treat them whenever we want. But first of all, we have to release the hostages, to stop the war, and then to find a way back to our normal life.”
8. Various of protesters
9. Police behind barricades
10. Protester wearing a mask depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and dressed in prison uniform
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Amram Zahavi, protester:
“I am asking president Trump to show his human (inaudible) and to talk Prime Minister Bibi (Benjamin) Netanyahu like he did with (Ukrainian President, Volodymyr) Zelenskyy. There is not other solution. Bibi (Benjamin) Netanyahu doesn’t want peace.”
12. Protesters in street, some holding Israeli flags
STORYLINE:
More than 2,000 people took to the streets of Jerusalem on Sunday, calling for a deal to release all hostages still being held in Gaza.
Demonstrators held signs reading “we are all hostages,” and “end the war, “ while one protester wore a mask depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dressed in a prison uniform.
“We need to end the war immediately," protester Amiram Strulov said.
"As president Trump said, stop this crazy war immediately."
The demonstration came as Israel faced sharp criticism on Sunday after it stopped the entry of all food and other supplies into Gaza and warned of “additional consequences” for Hamas if a fragile ceasefire isn’t extended.
Mediators Egypt and Qatar accused Israel of violating humanitarian law by using starvation as a weapon
The ceasefire’s first phase saw a surge in humanitarian aid after months of growing hunger.
Hamas accused Israel of trying to derail the next phase Sunday hours after its first phase had ended and called Israel’s decision to cut off aid “a war crime and a blatant attack” on a truce that took a year of negotiations before taking hold in January.
In the second phase, Hamas could release dozens of remaining hostages in return for an Israeli pullout from Gaza and a lasting ceasefire.
Negotiations on the second phase were meant to start a month ago but haven’t begun.
Israel said Sunday that a new U.S. proposal calls for extending the ceasefire’s first phase through Ramadan — the Muslim holy month that began over the weekend — and the Jewish Passover holiday, which ends on April 20.
Under that proposal, Hamas would release half the hostages on the first day and the rest when an agreement is reached on a permanent ceasefire, Netanyahu said.
The militants currently hold 59 hostages, 35 of them believed to be dead.
The U.S. had no immediate comment.
The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostage.
Israeli forces pulled back from most of Gaza and Israel allowed a surge of humanitarian aid to enter.
Israel’s offensive has killed over 48,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
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