(21 Mar 2025)
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Jerusalem – 21 March 2025
1. Various of protestors gathering next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence, chanting (Hebrew) “We will not compromise”.
2. Pan from the police blocking the road next to Netanyahu’s residence to protestors
3. Banner reading (English) “You (Netanyahu) are to blame for 7.10 & Qatargate”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Lee Siegel, brother of released hostage Keith Siegel:
“We’re here in Jerusalem, close to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s residence, to continue to remind him that there are hostages in Gaza, and they must come home. War does not bring hostages home. War kills hostages. Hostages are not safe in a war environment."
5. Protestor talking to police
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lee Siegel, brother of released hostage Keith Siegel:
“We are here to say, Mr. Prime Minister, you signed on an agreement. It calls for all of the hostages coming home in three phases. You have stopped after the first phase. We know that President Trump and his administration are committed to all phases and returning all of the hostages. We ask of the Prime Minister to honor his word to President Trump and go back to negotiation and tomorrow announce to us, yes, we have reached an agreement. We know the conditions. All of the hostages are returning home to Israel. Those alive to rebuild."
7. Protestors chanting (Hebrew) “Democracy, Democracy”
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ricardo Girachener, uncle of released hostage Omer Wenkert:
“Mr. Trump, please make all the efforts that are needed to seal the deal. Bring the families to be united again. We need them alive. My nephew got back from Gaza after losing 40kg. All the other hostages got back injured. They are being murdered. We don’t have any other time. Time is its essence Mr. Trump, please do it."
9. Various of protest
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of protestors gathered outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem on Friday calling to end the war and release of all hostages held captive in Gaza.
The protests come amid a renewed Israeli offensive in Gaza and ahead of a vote by the government to dismiss the head of internal security, a move that many view as undermining the balance of powers in Israel.
Earlier on Friday, Netanyahu’s Cabinet unanimously approved his request to fire the head of the country’s Shin Bet internal security service.
The decision to sack Ronen Bar deepens a power struggle focused largely over who bears responsibility for the 2023 Hamas attack that sparked the war in Gaza.
It also could set the stage for a crisis over the country’s division of powers.
Israel’s attorney general has ruled that the Cabinet has no legal basis to dismiss Bar.
A Shin Bet report into Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack that prompted the war acknowledged failures by the security agency.
But it also said that policies by Netanyahu’s government created the conditions for the attack.
Netanyahu is also upset that the Shin Bet has launched an investigation into connections between some of his close aides and the Gulf state of Qatar.
His office said Bar’s dismissal would take effect on April 10 or before then if a replacement is found.
Nearly 600 Palestinians have been killed since Israel on Tuesday shattered a truce that had facilitated the release of more than two dozen hostages and brought relative calm since late January.
AP Video by Shlomo Mor
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