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Still working off leftover USAID funds, or fresh donations from frustrated rich Progressives trying to change the world in their image? What vile people these are. [IsraelTimes] About a thousand people
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gather for the weekly pro-hostage deal, anti-government protest in front of the Begin Road entrance to the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv.
The protest takes place as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom protesters accuse of trying to thwart the continuation of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, holds security consultations about the future of the agreement.
Speaking at the protest, Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, says she sometimes imagines herself reunited with her son, “having coffee, smoking a cigarette.”
“These moments are approaching with giant strides,” she says.
To jeers, she adds: “The prime minister has tried to thwart the agreement again and again and again.”
“One person stands between us and all the hostages,” she says, referring to the premier.
“Netanyahu — we’re sick of the procrastination,” she says.
Assailing the protracted multi-stage hostage releases, she says, “Shorten the stages, release everyone, give us a victory image without loved ones.”
About an hour earlier, Zangauker had spoken at a separate rally at Hostages Square, a block away, where she also accused Netanyahu of abandoning the captives to keep his coalition intact: “How can you play politics on their backs when you know the Holocaust they are enduring in Hamas’s tunnels?”
The Begin Road demonstration is bolstered by protesters against the government’s judicial overhaul plan who have marched over from Habima Square.
In front of the IDF headquarters, protesters chant: “A deal that’s not completed murders everyone.”
The main block of protesters is flanked by activists from various civil society groups: Members of the Israeli Gay Youth movement, who wave pride flags; a coalition of left-wing groups including Standing Together, Women Wage Peace and Socialist Struggle, and the Movement for Quality Government.
Police arrest protester over fake blood display symbolizing hostages’ conditions in Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Police arrest one protester during a pro-hostage deal demonstration in Jerusalem, after she and several others partook in a display symbolizing the captives’ conditions in Gaza, during a march to the prime minister’s residence.
The display involved four demonstrators wearing scant clothing and covered in fake blood, kneeling on the ground during the procession and raising their hands, bound together with rope.
Echoing Trump, hawkish hostage forum demands release of all abductees or Hamas to face ‘hell’
[IsraelTimes] The hawkish Tikva Forum, which represents a group of hostage families, congratulates the hostages released today, and states that the next phase of hostage releases must look “completely different,” with “no humiliations and no staged events,” referring to the Hamas ceremonies parading the hostages before they are released to the Red Cross.
“We demand the release of all the remaining hostages on one day, on one bus, and if this doesn’t happen, then all hell must break out on Hamas,” states the Tikva Forum, echoing US President Donald Trump’s threat from earlier this week. “Stop the electricity, stop the water, a total siege and re-occupation!
“We need to hit the Hamas-Nazi terror organization hard until they release all the hostages, until they understand that holding hostages is a burden and not an asset.”
The Forum states that the next phase of the hostage deal must begin with an ultimatum, with the backing of the president of the United States, and not from a position of weakness.
“In our region, only force is understood,” says the Forum. 
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