(12 Mar 2025)
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Kfar Aza, Israel 12 March 2025
++NIGHT TIME++
1. Various of multiple lights aimed at Gaza from house where twin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman were seized by Hamas militants
2. Posters of Gali and Ziv Berman, writing reading (English) “Kidnapped. Ziv and Gali Berman, 26 years old Israelis. Bring them home”
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Liran Berman, brother of Gali and Ziv Berman, twin brothers held hostage in Gaza Strip:
“They (are) making this amazing spectacle on the border next to their houses. Hopefully they can see them from Gaza. It’s like two kilometers from where we stand. And this is a beautiful thing that their company is doing for them and for us, for the family.”
4. Lights with empty army posts
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Liran Berman, brother of Gali and Ziv Berman, twin brothers held hostage in Gaza Strip:
“What we know right now is the negotiation is talking about the end of the war. This is the only way to bring the hostages back. So, we need, like the terminology is important. The war will stop once the hostages will be back. And we need hostages to be back. So, the war will end, and we will have all the future ahead of us to repair all the damages the war has done.”
6. Various of family and friends hugging
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Bar Yatzkan, friend of Gali and Ziv Berma, twin brothers held hostage in Gaza Strip:
“Tonight we gather here, family, friends and workers from Kfar Gaza light company who… Gali and Ziv were working there before October 7th. And the main purpose of tonight is to light up the skies and to… I hope that it will reach them. Right now, they’re alive and they’re living inside their darkest days. So, we want to make the skies brighter and maybe they’ll see it.”
8. Man walking next to the house where twin brothers were taken
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Bar Yatzkan, friend of Gali and Ziv Berman, twin brothers held hostage in Gaza Strip
“The main objective is to return them home as soon as possible, because they’re there for 523 days. It’s a lot. And they’re suffering each day, and they need to go back home to their father and their mother and their entire family and friends.”
10. Poster of Gali and Ziv Berman, writing (English) Bring them home.”
11. Tilt-up of poster of Gali and Ziv Berman
12. Various of lights
STORYLINE:
Multiple lights were aimed at the Gaza Strip on Wednesday from the house where Israeli twin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman were seized by Palestinian militants during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
Family and friends of the brothers gathered outside the home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, expressing hope that the
twins would see the beams light up the night sky from wherever they were being held.
Last month, the family of the Bermans received signs of life for the first time since the 27-year-olds were taken.
A new round of ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas started Tuesday.
Israel wants Hamas to release half of the remaining hostages in return for a promise to negotiate a lasting truce.
The militant group, however, wants to start negotiations on the ceasefire’s more difficult second phase, in which the remaining hostages would be released and Israeli forces would withdraw from Gaza.
Hamas is believed to have 24 living hostages and the bodies of 35 others.
Israel is trying to force Hamas to accept its plan by cutting off all electricity, food, medicine and other goods to Gaza’s more than 2 million Palestinians.
The United Nations and other humanitarian aid providers say Israel is violating international law.
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