(24 Jun 2024)
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Tel Aviv, Israel - 24 June 2024
1. Wide shot of empty table at the hostages’ square
2. Mid of picture showing a picture of hostage
3. Close up of Israeli flag
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Natalie Gaysinsky, Tel Aviv resident:
“I think the prime minister has to go home, or rather to jail, and I think all the hostages have to come back, whoever is still alive, they have to come back alive. We have to do whatever it takes to bring them home alive.”
5. Mid of sand clock at square with writing (English) reading “Hostages are still there”
6. Close up of banner showing picture of hostage
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Eli Lev, Tel Aviv resident:
“I think that Hamas don’t want to release the hostages, I think that even if Netanyahu signed an agreement and we leave Gaza, Hamas will find excuses, it will say 'we cannot find this guy, this guy was dead', and this guy...and I don’t believe that they will free all the hostages, that’s it. And I support Netanyahu in that way.”
8. Mid of empty table
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Eli Lev, Tel Aviv resident:
“I really support what Netanyahu said and I think that he must win, we must win this war. We cannot hesitate anymore, and we cannot stop. That will be the end of us.”
10. Mid of pictures of hostages
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ido Dagan, Tel Aviv resident:
“I think that it's a shame that our prime minister still continue as business as usual, with his full interest in politics and so on, and, doesn't feel that he needs to reveal his leadership to the people of Israel in these days. And it's just a shame.”
12. Ruby Chen, whose son Itay was killed in Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7. , body held in Gaza, looking at photo wall
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ruby Chen, son Itay was killed in Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7. with his body held in Gaza:
“We were are all surprised about what the prime minister said yesterday evening. We still believe that getting back 120 hostages is the most important, critical, time-sensitive objective of the prime minister and his government. And we'd like to understand why the prime minister needed to come out with that statement, especially in these critical days where all of the international pressure was put on Hamas to say yes to a deal that President Biden talked about and was approved by the Israeli war Cabinet.”
14. End shot of Chen
STORYLINE:
Some Tel Aviv residents on Monday reacted to televised comments made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu around a “partial” cease-fire deal with Hamas.
The viability of a U.S.-backed proposal to wind down the 8-month-long war in Gaza was cast into doubt after Netanyahu said he would only be willing to agree to a “partial” cease-fire deal that would not end the war.
“We were are all surprised about what the prime minister said yesterday evening, we still believe that getting back 120 hostages is the most important, critical, time-sensitive objective of the prime minister and his government,” said Ruby Chen, whose son Itay was killed in Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7. His body is still being held in Gaza.
In an interview broadcast late Sunday on Israeli Channel 14, a conservative, pro-Netanyahu station, the Israeli leader said he was “prepared to make a partial deal -- this is no secret - that will return to us some of the people,” referring to the roughly 120 hostages still held in the Gaza Strip.
“But we are committed to continuing the war after a pause, in order to complete the goal of eliminating Hamas. I’m not willing to give up on that.”
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