(18 Sep 2025)
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Jerusalem – 18 September 2025
1. Various of mothers of soldiers and mothers of hostages chaining themselves together outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence and walking with people carrying mock coffins behind them
2. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker:
“This is no longer just a war for our lives, this is not just a war for our future, and it’s not just a war for our existence – this is a war for their future, for the hostages, for the soldiers and fighters and reservists. For their very existence. Our children’s blood cannot remain abandoned any longer. I cry out to you, all the mothers across the country – my Matan is being held in the depths of the tunnels. Cry out with us: Enough!"
3. Various of women screaming UPSOUND (Hebrew): “Enough”
4. Close of mock coffins wrapped with Israeli flags, reading (Hebrew): (right) “the next missing person” (left) “The next hostage”
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5. Police removing canister with smoke during protest outside Netanyahu’s residence
6. Mother of hostage Einav Zangauker protesting
7. Various of protest
8. Police separating a protester from a right-wing activist
9. Various of protest
STORYLINE:
Israeli mothers of soldiers and mothers of hostages chained themselves together outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem on Thursday to protest the ongoing military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Israel is waging a major ground offensive in Gaza City that has forced nearly 250,000 Palestinians to flee, according to the United Nations. Hundreds of thousands remain in the city, large parts of which have already been destroyed in previous Israeli raids.
Four Israeli soldiers were killed by an explosive device during an operation in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, said Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, the Israeli military spokesman. They are the first casualties to be announced since Israel launched its offensive in Gaza City, in the north.
Such deaths could further erode support for the war among Israelis who fear that the fighting puts soldiers and hostages at risk. At least 460 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the ground invasion of Gaza in October 2023.
Later Thursday, a few hundred protesters protested in front of Netanyahu’s residence.
The war has killed at least 65,141 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government. U.N. agencies and many independent experts consider its figures to be the most reliable estimate of wartime casualties. It does not say how many of those killed were civilians or combatants.
Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people in the Oct. 7 attack that started the war and abducted 251 others. Forty-eight hostages remain in Gaza, around 20 of them believed by Israel to be alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefires or other deals.
AP Video shot by Moshe Edri
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