Thousands of Israelis protest in Tel Aviv before police bring out water cannon

(7 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel - 07 December 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of protesters next to bonfire
2. Various of people greeting Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker
3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker:
"Like Matan, there are a few dozen who are currently alive. Don't allow them to be brought back dead in bags. Take to the streets. Tonight is the night. There's a cabinet meeting today, there's a cabinet meeting tomorrow. Enough with the games with the shticks and the petty politics on the back of my son, who I've been screaming to save for 14 months."
4. Various of protesters
5. Close of sign reading "Genocide won't bring them home"
6. Close of sign reading "End the bloodshed"
7. Protestors next to bonfire
8. Various of protesters walking towards a major intersection
9. Police firing water cannon at protesters

STORYLINE:
Police used a water cannon on protestors in Tel Aviv on Saturday as thousands took to the streets for weekly anti-government protests.

Thousands of Israelis turned out to demand an end to the war in Gaza and the return of the hostages taken on 7 October 2023.

Hamas released a video Saturday of Matan Zangauker, who was among scores of people kidnapped in the militant group’s October 7 attack on southern Israel.

His mother, Einav Zangauker, has become a symbol of the fight to bring back the hostages and is an outspoken critic of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

"Don't allow them to be brought back dead in bags. Take to the streets," Einav Zangauker urged during Saturday's protest.

The video is the first sign of life of Zangauker since his abduction and showed him making an emotional plea for his release and describing the conditions he and other hostages face in Gaza.

The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel in October 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 250 people hostage.

Israel’s blistering retaliatory offensive has killed at least 44,600 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were combatants. Israel says it has killed over 17,000 militants, without providing evidence.

AP Video shot by Shlomo Mor
Production by Mitya Osipov

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