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Hamas video shows Gaza hostage Zangauker for first time as thousands rally for deal

2024-12-09

[IsraelTimes] Netanyahu speaks to mother of captive Matan Zangauker, a leading anti-government voice, after terror group releases tape of her son urging deal; protests held in Tel Aviv, elsewhere

Thousands of anti-government demonstrators rallied for a hostage deal in 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...
in Tel Aviv and other locations Saturday night, energized by fresh momentum toward an internationally mediated agreement and a video showing a captive whose mother has become a leading voice within the protest movement.

With on-and-off negotiations with the Hamas
Hamas

..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
terror group poised to restart following the successful brokering of a ceasefire in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
and pressure from US President-elect Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
, Einav Zangauker implored Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to strike a deal with the terror group to ensure the release of her son Matan Zangauker and the rest of the remaining hostages.

The propaganda video released by Hamas Saturday was the first sign of life from the 25-year-old Zangauker since he was kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz during Hamas’s southern Israel onslaught on October 7 last year.

The three-and-a-half-minute-long video is not dated, though Zangauker states that he has been held for over 420 days, indicating it was filmed recently.

In the clip, Zangauker identifies himself and calls on the Israeli public to continue protests in support of a deal with Hamas.

Hamas has previously issued similar videos of hostages the terror group is holding, in what Israel says is a form of psychological warfare.

Addressing her son at a protest in Tel Aviv, Zangauker called out Netanyahu’s far-right coalition allies, who have sought to block a hostage deal that includes a ceasefire in Gaza. "I won’t let anyone deprive me of your embrace — not the prime minister, not [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben Gvir and not [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich," she said.

A former Likud supporter, Zangauker has transformed into one of the government’s most potent critics, accusing Netanyahu and others of refusing to agree to a deal for political reasons as her son wastes away in Gaza.

Netanyahu’s office said in a statement Saturday night that the prime minister had spoken with Zangauker and told her that he "fully understands the severe suffering that Matan and all the hostages and their families are going through."

The prime minister told Zangauker that Israel is working to "take advantage of every opportunity that arises to advance negotiations" and vowed to do everything to bring Matan and the rest of the hostages home, his office said.

Matan’s girlfriend, Ilana Gritzewsky, who was kidnapped with him but released during a weeklong ceasefire-hostage deal with Hamas in November 2023, told the anti-government rally in Tel Aviv that seeing the video brought back memories of her own abduction.

"When I see the video of Matan, I don’t just see him captive — I experience my own captivity again. I know what he’s going through, every moment, every minute. I know how it feels when you’re so far from the world, from family, from light. It’s being trapped in a nightmare that never ends," Gritzewsky said.

The rally was one of the several held in central Tel Aviv Saturday night, including a second anti-government protest and a non-partisan demonstration for the hostages. Rallies for the hostages and against the government had been taking place weekly, but were put on hold for some two months due to restrictions on public gatherings, amid escalated fighting with Hezbollah which drew to a close late last month.

Police said five people were arrested during the protests for attacking an officer, breaking through police barriers, blocking Begin Road and attempting to enter the Ayalon Highway.

Three minors were also detained but later released, said attorney and former Meretz MK Gabi Lasky, who is representing the protesters.

At so-called "Democracy Square," at the intersection of Begin Road and Kaplan Street, what appeared to be over a thousand protesters, many carrying Israeli flags, crammed into an area cordoned off with trucks by police.

Police had approved a "Democracy March" to the intersection from Habima Square, but did not approve the protests at Democracy Square itself, saying turnout had been too low a week earlier to justify sealing off the junction.

A block north, another weekly protest drew hundreds outside the Israel Defense Forces headquarters, led by relatives of hostages opposed to the government and bolstered by left-wing activists. On the ground, large white cardboard letters spelled out: "Thou shalt not kill."

In between the two protests, a group urging "civil rebellion" set up a "conscription booth" to enlist people willing to engage in non~~violent~~ mostly peaceful civil disobedience. For the second week running, the group held an explanatory session on disobedience tactics.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's other gun out of his other hand......
in so-called Hostages Square, the central weekly rally led by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum drew some thousand protesters.

Later in the night, police used water cannons on some anti-government protesters who blocked traffic near the Savidor Center train station.

In addition to the demonstrations in Tel Aviv, protests were also held in Jerusalem, Beersheba and Haifa, as well as in smaller communities and junctions across the country.

On Saturday, 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...
i Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani confirmed his country would resume its role as a mediator in negotiations for a truce-hostage deal, citing "encouragement" from the incoming Trump administration.

A source close to Hamas negotiators told AFP Saturday that a new round of talks could "most likely" begin in the coming week in Cairo.

Netanyahu’s aides have broadcast increasing optimism about a new hostage deal proposal that they say Egypt crafted, according to Hebrew media reports.

It is believed that 96 of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.

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