(12 Sep 2025)
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Tel Aviv, Israel – 26 August 2025
1. Various of Yifat Gadot, mother of a soldier who fought in Gaza, protesting in Tel Aviv, with sign reading (Hebrew): “Parents of fighters shouting ‘enough’!”
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Tal Shahar, Israel – 26 August 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Yifat Gadot, mother of a soldier who fought in Gaza:
++SOUNDBITE SPLIT SCREEN WITH SHOT 1 AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++
"We want our children the combat soldiers out of Gaza now. We do not want our children dying in vain. We do not want our corrupt and extremist government to sacrifice our hostages, which should have been home a year and a half ago alive. We want our soldiers to go out of Gaza now.”
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Tel Aviv, Israel – 26 August 2025
3. Paula Keusch, mother of a soldier protesting in Tel Aviv ++NIGHT SHOT++
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Southern Israel – 3 September 2025
++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: VIDEO WAS REVIEWED AND CLEARED BY THE ISRAELI MILITARY CENSORSHIP++
4. Soldiers standing next to tanks parked near the border with Gaza
5. Smoke over Gaza skyline as seen from southern Israel, destruction is seen in Gaza
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Tal Shahar, Israel – 26 August 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Noorit Felsenthal-Berger, mother of soldiers who fought in Gaza:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT 4 AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 5++
"My youngest son was 14 months in Gaza straight, I couldn’t stop thinking of how to break his leg, break his arm, wound him in some way that he won’t be able to go back."
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Southern Israel – 3 September 2025
++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: VIDEO WAS REVIEWED AND CLEARED BY THE ISRAELI MILITARY CENSORSHIP++
7. Various of tanks driving on the Israeli side of border with Gaza
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Tel Aviv, Israel – 26 August 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Avshalom Zohar Sal, a soldier recently in Gaza:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 9++
"Don’t put me in this position. Don’t put me in the position that I need to decide if I’m going to risk again my life and maybe kill hostages, or my friend is going to be injured or something will happen to them, and push our government to finish the war and make the deal."
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Southern Israel – 3 September 2025
++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: VIDEO WAS REVIEWED AND CLEARED BY THE ISRAELI MILITARY CENSORSHIP++
9. Mid of military watch tower as sun set over the border with Gaza
STORYLINE:
As Israel calls up tens of thousands of reservists for its invasion of Gaza City, a growing number of soldiers — and their mothers — are saying no.
There are no official figures, but newly formed groups are broadcasting their refusal to serve despite the risk of imprisonment.
It’s a new phenomenon in the nearly two-year war sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, though so far it has had no apparent effect on military operations.
The defiance is emerging as Israelis have joined mass protests accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of prolonging the war for political purposes instead of reaching a deal with Hamas to bring back the remaining 48 hostages, 20 of whom are believed to be alive.
Many opponents, including former senior security officials, fear that the latest offensive will achieve little and put the hostages at risk.
Israel also faces heavy international criticism over the humanitarian catastrophe unleashed by the war and its blockade.
One group calling on soldiers to refuse to serve is comprised of mothers who fear their sons will die in vain.
Netanyahu’s office declined to comment.
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