(13 Jul 2025)
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Jerusalem – 13 July 2025
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1. Activists, relatives of hostages with posters showing images of hostages held in Gaza standing outside Israeli Prime Minister’s office
2. Posters of hostages held in Gaza
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Polin, father of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-American hostage killed in captivity in Gaza:
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“To President Trump and Mr. Witkoff, we all thank you, you brought home 33 of our brothers and sisters, and we know you can do more, and we want you to know that the overwhelming majority of the people in Israel have spoken loudly and clearly, we want to do a deal, even at the cost of ending this war, and we want to do it now, and we are praying and hoping that you will help get it done. Thank you.“
4. Activists, relatives of hostages
5. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Shay Dickmann, cousin of Carmel Gat who was killed in Gaza:
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with minister (Bezalel) Smotrich. (UPSOUND of crowd booing) Minister Smotrich, we heard you today saying that you request a partial deal, that at the end of it we’ll return fighting. With this request minister Smotrich, you put the families (of hostages) in the same position as the terrorists did, the hostages in the tunnels, beg for the lives of your loved ones.”
6. Activists, relatives of hostages with posters showing images of hostages held in Gaza standing outside Israeli Prime Minister’s office
7. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Shay Dickmann, cousin of Carmel Gat who was killed in Gaza:
“We are not willing for you (government) to settle for just a part (of hostages). This time we are asking for all. And now!”
8. Posters of brothers Ziv and Gali Berman held in Gaza
9. Activists, relatives of hostages with posters showing images of hostages held in Gaza standing outside Israeli Prime Minister’s office
STORYLINE:
Relatives of hostages held in Gaza and activists demonstrated on Sunday evening outside the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, asking for a deal for the return of all remaining hostages.
Among them, the father of an Israeli-American hostage who was killed in captivity in Gaza thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for bringing back hostages held in Gaza and added “We know you can do more.”
“To President Trump,” said Jon Polin, father of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was killed in captivity in Gaza “we want you to know that the overwhelming majority of the people in Israel have spoken loudly and clearly, we want to do a deal, even at the cost of ending this war.”
Israel and Hamas appeared no closer to a breakthrough in talks meant to pause the 21-month war and free some Israeli hostages.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington last week to discuss the deal with the Trump administration, but a new sticking point has emerged over the deployment of Israeli troops during the truce, raising questions over the feasibility of a new deal.
Israel wants to keep forces in what it says is an important land corridor in southern Gaza.
Hamas views the insistence on troops in that strip of land as an indication that Israel intends to continue the war once a temporary ceasefire expires.
Israel says it will only end the war once Hamas surrenders, disarms and goes into exile, something it refuses to do.
Hamas says it is willing to free all the remaining 50 hostages, less than half said to be alive, in exchange for an end to the war and the full withdrawal of Israeli forces.
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