(24 Jan 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jerusalem - 24 January 2024
1. Women blocking road, calling for release of hostages held in Gaza, big banner hanging from bridge reading (Hebrew) "They are running out of time" with reference to a Hebrew saying "May their memory be of blessing"
2. Police next to protesters
3. Police and protesters in background
4. Protesters with banner reading (Hebrew) "Help 136 hostages"
5. Various of protesters blocking road, police
6. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Noa Melkil, protester:
“We want to shake the country today. We want to ask the decision makers to put our lives and the lives of our brothers and sisters in the centre, and to do whatever it takes to get them back, which means a deal - now.”
9. Protester Lilach Sivan holding poster showing an image of captive Michel Nisenbaum
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Lilach Sivan, protester:
“We’re doing everything we can for months now. We hope something will start to move this time."
11. Protesters marching
STORYLINE:
A group of protesters briefly blocked a road in Jerusalem Wednesday, calling for a deal to release the approximately 130 remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip.
The protesters held posters with photos of the hostages still held by Hamas and called for their immediate release.
"We want to ask the decision makers to put our lives and the lives of our brothers and sisters in the center, and to do whatever it takes to get them back, which means a deal – now,” said protester Noa Melki.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue the offensive until “complete victory” over Hamas and to return all remaining hostages after the Oct. 7 rampage in southern Israel that triggered the war.
In that attack, some 1,200 people were killed and Hamas and other militants abducted around 250 people.
Gaza's Health Ministry says the offensive has killed at least 25,490 people — the majority women and children — and wounded another 63,354.
In addition, more than three months into the war, Israelis are increasingly divided on the question of whether it’s possible to do both.
Around 100 hostages were freed under a weeklong cease-fire deal in November in exchange for the release of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
Around 130 remain captive, but a number have since been confirmed dead.
AP video by Moshe Edri
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