(21 Mar 2025)
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Jerusalem – 21 March 2025
1. Wide of protestors gathering next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence, chanting (Hebrew) “We will not compromise”
2. Mid of protesters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lee Siegel, brother of released hostage Keith Siegel:
++STARTS ON SHOT 2, PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 4, 5 AND 6++
“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."
4. Banner reading (English) “You (Netanyahu) are to blame for 7.10 & Qatargate”
5. Wide of protesters
6. Mid of protester talking to police
7. Wide of protesters
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ricardo Girachener, uncle of released hostage Omer Wenkert:
++STARTS ON SHOT 7, PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 9 AND 10++
“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. Pan from the police blocking the road next to Netanyahu’s residence to protestors
10. Wide of protesters
11. Mid of protester using horn
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.
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