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2025-03-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Saturday hostage rallies draw thousands as families end 1st week of encampment
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[IsraelTimes] Protests take place as Netanyahu convenes the cabinet a day after negotiators returned from Doha; families forum slam meeting as belated: ‘The opportunity is now’
Weekly pro-hostage deal and anti-government rallies drew thousands of people on Saturday night, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to discuss negotiations for the release of hostages with Israeli officials who returned from Doha on Friday.
The rallies come a week after families and supporters began an open-ended round-the-clock encampment outside the IDF’s Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv.
As part of the encampment, families held a Friday night Shabbat dinner at Hostages Square, across the street from the headquarters’ northern gate; and on Saturday morning, the encampment’s daily jog drew hundreds of people — a large uptick in participants.
The Hostage and Missing Families Forum, which invited the public to join "Operation Kirya Cordon," was holding its central rally in the evening at Hostages Square.
In a blurb on the rally, the forum demanded that Israel secure a deal to return the remaining 59 hostages "in a single, immediate release."
"The opportunity is now, and there won’t be another time," said the forum. "If an agreement is not reached soon, the living hostages may die in the tunnels, and we won’t be able to locate and return the dear departed for proper burial."
The Hostages Square rally was set to feature speeches by Etty Israeli, aunt of slain captive soldier Itay Chen; Yotam Cohen, brother of captive soldier Nimrod Cohen; Liran Berman, older brother of hostage twins Gali and Ziv Berman; Hadassa Lazar, sister of Shlomo Mantzur, whose remains were returned to Israel last month as part of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
ceasefire-hostage deal; Maya Shmiel, cousin of captive Eitan Horn and of Iair Horn, who was released on February 15 as part of the deal; and Nira Sharabi, wife of slain captive Yossi Sharabi and sister-in-law of Eli Sharabi, who was released on February 8.
In addition to Hostages Square, dozens of smaller rallies were taking place around the country, including in Jerusalem, Kiryat Gat and the Sha’ar HaNegev Junction in the south.
A block away from Hostages Square, anti-government hostage families and supporters were holding their weekly protest outside the Kirya’s main entrance on Begin Road.
They were to be joined by protesters marching from an earlier anti-government demonstration at Habima Square, which aimed to highlight "Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
gate" — the investigation of alleged ties between Netanyahu’s top aides and the Gulf state.
The Habima Square protest was set to feature speeches from The Democrats
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chief Yair Golan, former deputy attorney general Dina Zilber, and Shikma Bressler, a prominent activist in demonstrations against the government’s overhaul plan to weaken the judiciary.
The protests were timed to take place during Netanyahu’s scheduled meeting with bigwigs at his office in Jerusalem to discuss developments in the hostage-ceasefire talks. The Families Forum has slammed the premier for not meeting with officials as soon as the negotiators returned on Friday.
The talks are said to be based on a "bridge proposal" by Steve Witkoff, the White House Middle East envoy, to extend the ceasefire’s first phase until April 19 and continue the exchange of living Israeli hostages for Paleostinian prisoners.
Witkoff said Friday that Hamas
 ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
was making a "very bad bet" if it did not accept the offer.
Israel has accused Hamas of evading Witkoff’s proposal, most recently after the terror group on Thursday offered to release US-Israeli captive IDF soldier Edan Alexander and the remains of four other dual nationals. The Families Forum slammed the offer as "passport-based" discrimination.
An Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel on Friday that Hamas’s offer was based on its talks with US hostages envoy Adam Boehler on March 4. The Hamas-US meeting fired up the rubes in Israel, which reportedly leaked the talks’ existence in a bid to thwart them.
Alexander, 20, is slated for release in a potential second phase of the hostage deal, which would see Hamas release the remaining 24 hostages still thought to be alive. All of them are men kidnapped on October 7, 2023, when the terror group invaded southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza. 
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