(4 Apr 2025)
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Jerusalem – 4 April 2025
1. Released hostage Karina Ariev launching Jerusalem marathon
2. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Karina Ariev, released hostage: ++STARTS ON SHOT 1 AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3 TO 5++
"My name is Karina Ariev and I stand here today after 477 days in Hamas captivity. We are here today to remind ourselves and the whole world that we cannot and will not break. There are still those who did not return. There are those who are waiting, and I am here to say that we will not forget and we will not give up until the last one comes home. This is the struggle of all of us and it does not end until they are with us again."
3. Participants running
4. Mid of posters showing hostages pictures
5. Ariev and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion standing together
6. Participants running
STORYLINE:
Released Israeli hostage Karina Ariev launched the 14th Jerusalem Marathon on Friday.
Ariev was released on January 25 and had been among those abducted from the Nahal Oz military base on October 7, 2023.
"We are here today to remind ourselves and the whole world that we cannot and will not break,"Ariev said after launchingthe marathon
"There are still those who did not return. There are those who are waiting, and I am here to say that we will not forget and we will not give up until the last one comes home. This is the struggle of all of us and it does not end until they are with us again."
Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes continued to pound the Gaza Strip.
On Thursday, airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians across the territory, including 27 or more sheltering at a school, according to Palestinian medical authorities.
The Israeli military said it struck a “Hamas command and control center” in the Gaza City area, and said it took steps to lessen harm to civilians.
Israel gave the same reason — striking Hamas militants in a “command and control center” — for attacking a United Nations building used as a shelter a day earlier, killing at least 17 people.
The latest attacks come in a stepped-up offensive that Israel’s military said is intended to pressure Hamas and eventually expel the militant group.
Israel has issued sweeping evacuation orders for parts of northern Gaza ahead of expected ground operations.
The U.N. humanitarian office said around 280,000 Palestinians have been displaced since Israel ended the ceasefire with Hamas last month.
The fresh evacuation orders came a day after senior government officials said Israel would seize large parts of the Palestinian territory and establish a new security corridor across it.
To pressure Hamas, Israel has imposed a month-long blockade on food, fuel and humanitarian aid that has left civilians facing acute shortages as supplies dwindle — a tactic that rights groups say is a war crime.
Hamas says it will only release the remaining 59 hostages — 24 of whom are believed to be alive — in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli pullout from Gaza.
The group has rejected demands that it lay down its arms or leave the territory.
The war in Gaza has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t say whether those killed are civilians or combatants but says more than half of those killed were women and children.
Israel says it has killed around 20,000 militants, without providing evidence.
The war has left most of Gaza in ruins and at its height displaced around 90% of the population.
Israel rescued eight living hostages and has recovered dozens of bodies
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