(21 Aug 2025)
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Tel Aviv, Israel – 21 August 2025
1. Zoom in on families of hostages on podium posing for picture
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dalia Cusnir, sister-in-law of hostage Eitan Horn and released hostage Iair Horn
"42 hostages were kidnapped alive and murdered in captivity due to military pressure and delay in signing a deal. We must not forget their names. My brother-in-law Iair Horn was lucky. He was released after 498 days in Hamas captivity, while his brother Eitan remains trapped in hell, suffering, starving, sick. Like him, (there are) so many others. Every day of extended fighting endangers them all, the living who may die and the deceased who may disappear."
3. Cutaway photographer
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dalia Cusnir, sister-in-law of hostage Eitan Horn and released hostage Iair Horn
"There is a deal on the table. This is the opening we need for a comprehensive deal. We must sign it immediately. We welcome every hostage who returns and every family reunites with their loved ones. Time is running out. The hostages cannot survive much longer in the hands of these brutal captors. We cannot support more fighting."
5. Picture of hostages
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dalia Cusnir, sister-in-law of hostage Eitan Horn and released hostage Iair Horn
"President Trump, Ambassador (U.S. envoy Steve) Witkoff, you have stood by us for so long. We now need you to do whatever you can to get this deal signed. President Trump, you want peace, you want to end wars. Only you can end this before it’s too late. We need this deal signed now."
7. Picture of hostages
8. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Bar Goddard, daughter of Meni Goddard, whose body is being held by Hamas
"Enough to sacrifice the hostages. Enough to sacrifice the soldiers, both regular and reservists. Enough to sacrifice the evacuees. Enough to sacrifice the younger generation in the country. Enough to sacrifice the economy. Enough to sacrifice the social fabric and national resilience of the State of Israel. Israel stands and the people are standing to remind a detached government that no one is left behind, that mutual responsibility is not just a slogan, it is the rock of our existence, that October 7 occurred under the watch of this government."
9. Zoom out on families of hostages posing for picture
STORYLINE:
Families of hostages held in Gaza urged the Israeli government on Thursday to immediately seal a deal.
Negotiations for a ceasefire continue, with Hamas agreeing to the terms of a proposed 60-day halt to the fighting, but with Israel yet to respond.
The Israeli military said it plans to call up tens of thousands of reservists for an expanded operation in Gaza City. Defense Minister Israel Katz approved the plan, which involves deploying 60,000 reservists and extending service for 20,000 more.
The hostages’ families and former army and intelligence chiefs have also expressed opposition to the expanded operation in Gaza City. Most of the families want an immediate ceasefire and worry that an expanded assault could imperil the surviving hostages.
"42 hostages were kidnapped alive and murdered in captivity due to military pressure and delay in signing a deal" said Dalia Cusnir, sister-in-law of hostage Eitan Horn and released hostage Iair Horn. "Time is running out . The hostages cannot survive much longer in the hands of these brutal captors . We cannot support more fighting ", she added.
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