(21 Aug 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reim, Israel – 20 August 2025
1. Various hostage families and supporters marching near the Gaza border, holding Israeli and yellow flags, banner reading (Hebrew) “The people will get the hostages back."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel – 20 August 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Lifshitz, grandson of deceased hostage Oded Lifshitz:
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“First of all to immediately come to the negotiation table and close the hostage deal. This hostage deal is a comprehensive hostage deal, it’s just part A of a comprehensive hostage deal as well as ambassador (U.S. Special Envoy Steve) Witkoff told us before. We call from here as well for the humanitarian aid that goes to Gaza will get also to the hostages, humanitarian aid to the Gazan, humanitarian aid to the hostages.”
3. Various of march
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reim, Israel – 20 August 2025
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4. Hostage families gathering to give statements
5. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Macabit Mayer, aunt of hostages Gali and Ziv Berman:
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"Today, tens of thousands of reservists are being recruited for a mission without purpose, one that puts our loved ones at risk and soldiers at risk. There is no time for the deceased, they will disappear with the advancement of the fighting. The responsibility of the faith of Gali and Ziv (Berman) and the rest of the hostages’ rests solely with the decisionmakers.”
6. Various of people lighting candles
STORYLINE:
Family members of Israeli hostages and their supporters marched on Wednesday near the border with Gaza, calling on Israel’s government to reach a hostage deal.
Israel’s military said Wednesday it would call up tens of thousands of reservists and extend the service of others for an expanded military operation in Gaza City.
Defense Minister Israel Katz approved plans to begin a new phase of operations in some of Gaza’s most densely populated areas, Israel’s military said Wednesday.
The scheme, expected to receive the final approval from the chief of staff in the coming days, includes calling up 60,000 reservists and extending the service of an additional 20,000 currently serving.
In a country of fewer than 10 million people, the call-up of so many reservists carries both economic and political weight and comes days after hundreds of thousands rallied for a ceasefire.
This comes as negotiators scramble to bring Israel and Hamas to agree to a ceasefire ending 22 months of fighting, while international leaders and rights groups warn an expanded assault could deepen Gaza’s humanitarian crisis, with most residents displaced, neighborhoods in ruins, and communities facing the threat of famine.
Hamas-led militants started the war when they attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251.
Most of the hostages have been released in ceasefires or other deals. Hamas says it will only free the rest in exchange for a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal.
More than 62,122 people have been killed during Israel’s 22-month offensive, Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Monday.
The ministry is part of the Hamas-run government and staffed by medical professionals. The ministry does not say how many of the dead were civilians or combatants, but says women and children make up around half of them.
AP Video by Moshe Edri
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