(6 May 2025)
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Jerusalem – 5 May 2025
1. Various of protesters with Israeli flags outside the Knesset
2. Protester on stage
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Miri Wolf, protester: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT1 AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT2++
"There’s no reason to continue on with this war. What we did for one-and-a-half years, last one-and-a-half years and we couldn’t succeed, we won’t be able to do it now. They (Israel’s government) just want to hold the strip of Gaza and make a new settlement there. They will stay there, soldiers will be killed and the hostages will come back in black sacks. That’s what will happen."
4. Protest
5. Police standing next to cement blocks
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Hila Shacham, protester: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON 4 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT5&7 AND PARTIALLY BY SHOT
"We are calling to stop the war, which I believe is no longer a war, it’s a genocide. We are here to call to bring back the hostages. We know that Netanyahu does not want the hostages back because he wants to keep his throne forever. We know that the messianic parties just simply want to annex the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and we are against that."
7. Protest
8. Flare at protest
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of people gathered outside the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, and protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, and called for a deal to release of hostages held in Gaza.
The protest Monday took place as Israel’s cabinet approved plans to capture the entire Gaza Strip and to stay in the Palestinian territory for an unspecified amount of time, two Israeli officials said, a move that, if implemented, would vastly expand Israel’s operations there and likely draw fierce international opposition.
“There’s no reason to continue on with this war. What we did for one-and-a-half years, last one-and-a-half years and we couldn’t succeed, we won’t be able to do it now,” said Miri Wolf, a protester.
“They (Israel’s government) just want to hold the strip of Gaza and make a new settlement there. They will stay there, soldiers will be killed, and the hostages will come back in black sacks. That’s what will happen,” she added.
The new plan, which the officials said was meant to help Israel achieve its war aims of defeating Hamas and freeing hostages held in Gaza, also calls for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to move to Gaza’s south.
That would likely amount to their forcible displacement and exacerbate an already dire humanitarian crisis.
Since Israel ended a ceasefire with the Hamas militant group in mid-March, Israel has unleashed fierce strikes on the territory that have killed hundreds.
It has captured swaths of territory and now controls roughly 50% of Gaza.
Before the truce ended, Israel halted all humanitarian aid into the territory, including food, fuel and water, setting off what is believed to the be the worst humanitarian crisis in nearly 19 months of war.
The war began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages. Israel says 59 captives remain in Gaza, although about 35 are believed to be dead.
Israel’s offensive has displaced more than 90% of Gaza’s population and, Palestinian health officials say, killed more than 52-thousand people there, many of them women and children. The officials do not distinguish between combatants and civilians in their count.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said Monday that the bodies of 32 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals over the past 24 hours.
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