(14 May 2025)
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Tel Aviv, Israel – 13 May 2025
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1. Families of hostages and supporters gathered outside the U.S Embassy in Tel Aviv, holding U.S. flags and chanting UPSOUND (English) “Bring them home now”
2. Protesters marching
3. Protesters holding banner reading (English): “President Trump, end the war – leave no hostage behind.”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Yehuda Cohen, father of hostage Nimrod Cohen: ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 5++
“(U.S.) President Donald Trump, Special envoys to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff and Adam Boehler, we put all of our trust in you. We put all our trust in the American administration to force (Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin) Netanyahu and his traitors government to go to a ceasefire, a permanent ceasefire, end the war and to a hostage deal.”
5. Protesters holding photos of hostages
6. Protesters marching
STORYLINE:
Families of hostages and their supporters rallied on Tuesday outside the U.S embassy in Tel Aviv, calling on President Donald Trump to help bring about a deal that would see the release of the remaining captives still being held in Gaza.
It comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday there was “no way” Israel will halt its war in Gaza — where airstrikes on two hospitals Tuesday killed at least eight and wounded dozens — even if a deal is reached to release more hostages.
Netanyahu’s comments are likely to complicate talks on a new ceasefire that had seemed to gain momentum after Hamas released the last living American hostage on Monday in a gesture to Trump, who is visiting the region but skipping Israel.
They pointed to a potentially widening rift between Netanyahu and Trump, who had expressed hope that the release of Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander would be a step toward ending the 19-month war.
In comments released by Netanyahu’s office Tuesday from a visit to wounded soldiers the previous day, the prime minister said Israeli forces were just days away from a promised escalation of force and would enter Gaza “with great strength to complete the mission. … It means destroying Hamas.”
Any ceasefire deal reached would be temporary, the prime minister said.
If Hamas were to say they would release more hostages, “we’ll take them, and then we’ll go in. But there will be no way we will stop the war,” Netanyahu said.
“We can make a ceasefire for a certain period of time, but we’re going to the end.”
Hamas has said it will only release the remaining hostages in return for more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
The dispute over whether to end the conflict has been the main obstacle in negotiations going back more than a year.
Israel says 58 hostages remain in captivity, with as many as 23 of them said to be alive, although authorities have expressed concern about the condition of three of them.
Many of the 250 hostages taken by Hamas-led militants in the October 7, 2023 attack that started the war were freed in ceasefire deals.
AP video shot by Moshe Edri
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