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00:03 Report / Beenish Javed
00:13 Maayan Sherman / Former hostage´s mother
00:42 Helen Reisel / Israeli protester
01:06 Ofer Cassif / Member of the Knesset
01:51 Mohammed Zytounieh / Gaza residient

Script:

Thousands of Israelis demanding the return of the hostages held in Gaza.

They want an immediate ceasefire - to bring home their loved ones. 

Maayan Sherman, Mother of former hostage Ron Sherman:
" I'm here to remind everybody that there are 50 more hostages that must come back to Israel, must come back to their families. 20 of them are still alive, and we have to do whatever we can in order to bring them back."
 
Near by, a silent vigil.

These Israelis pay tribute to the Palestinian children they say were killed by their own government.

+++ SOT (English) Helen Reisel
Protester

"It's extremely, extremely necessary to show our care, and what we want and what we believe in, and we have to show it by showing the pictures of these innocent children that are being killed, just as our innocent civilians were being massacred on October 7.."
 
The protesters say they are sharing the grief felt in neighbouring Gaza.

+++ SOT Ofer Cassif, member of the Knesset: 
"First of all, I am in pain and I am ashamed of what is going on, of what Israel has been doing for almost two years now: the genocide in Gaza, the butchery of thousands of thousands of innocent civilians, almost 20,000 children."

The Israeli government denies it is commiting genocide. It says it is waging a war against Hamas, which carried out the October 7 terror attacks that killed some twelve hundred Israelis.

In Gaza, people say they are facing death and destruction every day. 

According to hospital officials and eye witnesses. 31 Palestinians were shot dead on their way to an aid distribution site on Saturday.

 (Arabic) Mohammed Zytounieh, witness who lost his brother while both were seeking aid:
"My brother was shot in the head, his brain came out, and this is my brother's blood on my leg" (speaks while crying)
(UPSOUND reporter: who was shooting, from the military tanks or from the soldiers?) 
"From the soldiers, from the soldiers.” 

The US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation denies any incident occured near its aid-distribution sites.

The Israeli military said it had fired warning shots but was not aware of any casualties.

The United Nations says around 600 people have been killed near distribution centres in the Gaza Strip since the end of May.

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