(4 Apr 2025)
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Jerusalem – 4 April 2025
1. Released hostage Karina Ariev launching Jerusalem marathon
2. Close up of start sign
3. Participants running
4. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Karina Ariev, released hostage:
"My name is Karina Ariev and I stand here today after 477 days in Hamas captivity. I am privileged to be with you at the running free. I am not here on my own behalf only, I am here for those who were not privileged to return, for those who fell, for those who are still waiting, for those whose memory is engraved in our hearts."
5. More of runners
6. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Karina Ariev, released hostage:
“We are here today to remind ourselves and the whole world that we can, we will not break, but 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."
7. Police forces at marathon
8. More of runners running
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Moshe Lion, Jerusalem mayor:
"It’s a holiday for Jerusalem and I’m very excited to open the 14th marathon in Jerusalem in these days. A lot of people are coming here to participate in the running, and we are talking about 40,000 people that came in the morning to start the running."
10. Ariev and Lion standing together
11. Mid of posters showing hostages pictures
12. Mid of police
13. Zoom in of runners
STORYLINE:
Released hostage Karina Ariev launched the 14th Jerusalem Marathon on Friday.
Ariev was released on January 26 and had been among those abducted from the Nahal Oz military base on October 7, 2023.
“I stand here today after 477 days in Hamas captivity. I am privileged to be with you at the running free," she said.
"I am not here on my own behalf only, I am here for those who were not privileged to return, for those who fell, for those who are still waiting," said Ariev.
Some 250 people were taken hostage during Hamas’ October 7 attack.
Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion said about 40,000 people were participating in the run.
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 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.
AP video shot by Shlomo Mor
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