Hundreds protest in Israel to mark 200 days at war and demand release of hostages held in Gaza

(23 Apr 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel - 23 April 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of relatives of hostages and others supporting them, holding banners with pictures of the hostages reading "Bring them back" and shouting "Deal Now"
2. Mid of demonstrators holding banners reading (English) "Hey Joe. Mr Biden (U.S. president Joe Biden) help us. Save them. All of them home now!" and banner with a picture of a hostage reading "Agam we are here for you"
3. Banner with picture of Shlomo Mantzur (86) and reads (English) "Held hostage by Hamas over 200 days. Bring him home now!"
4. Various of people demonstrating holding banners with pictures of the hostages
5. Tilt up from girls and women carrying banners reading "Help" to others demonstrating
6. Various of people demonstrating carrying banners reading (English) "Stop the War" ; "Hostages deal now" and pictures of the hostages
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ely Aloni, demonstrator:
"(I'm here) because for 200 days we have the hostages kidnapped to Gaza and it's just atrocious, impossible. People in the world need to understand what is happening here in Israel: we were attacked, we were almost destroyed as a nation, and I don't understand why we don't have a million people here in the streets. It will come. It will come because we have to down the government, we have to change what's happening in Israel, we have to rebuild the country again. The antisemitism in the world is rising and we, Jews, we only have one place to be here and this is the land that we have to rebuild the land and live here in peace."
8. Person banging a pot with image of Netanyahu
9. Tilt up from picture of a hostage to people protesting
10. Mid of demonstration
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Giora Aloni, demonstrator and retired army official:
"We actually cannot trust the leadership, and if you can't trust the leadership the biggest problem is the army. Because the army, the Israeli army , is the best army in the world but army must have targets, goals. Army must know: okay, we want us to do this and this and this. This does not happen today, and this really disturbs me because without the army I don't think we can get the hostages back, I don't think we can solve the Gaza (situation)."
12. Various of people marching , some carrying a piece of pitta bread, symbolizing what the hostages in captivity have for food
13. People marching carrying Israeli flags and banners reading (English) "Hostage deal now"
14. Various of people protesting outside government offices
STORYLINE:
Hundreds marched in Tel Aviv to mark 200 days of the war, demanding a deal to release the hostages and the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Shouting “Deal Now” to release the hostages, and carrying banners with pictures of some of the more than 100 still in captivity in Gaza, the demonstrators marched by government offices carrying a dry pitta, symbolizing the food the hostages are receiving while in Gaza.
The protesters demanded new elections and criticized the way Netanyahu’s government has handled the war against Hamas.
The Israel-Hamas war was sparked by the unprecedented Oct. 7 raid into southern Israel in which the militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250 hostages.
Israel says the militants are still holding around 100 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others.
The war in Gaza has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, around two-thirds of them children and women.
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How about them
hostages ?
Do you think they are
among the living ?