(30 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel - 30 May 2025
1. Digital screen at hostages’ square in Tel Aviv counting the days hostages being held in Gaza.
2. Banner reading (English) “Bring Them Home Now”.
3. Photos of hostages held in Gaza
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ayelet Samerano, the mother of Yonatan Samerano, whose body is believed to be held in Gaza:
“We have been yesterday with the Prime Minister Netanyahu, and we asked this question, and sometimes there is a different meaning for words, because there is the title, end the war gets the hostages back. But we should understand what the real meaning of Hamas when they are saying it. If they are saying, we are releasing all the hostages, and then stop the war, ok. We should not forget, Hamas is a terror organization, we cannot believe them.”
5. Pictures of hostage Yonatan Samerano in his house in Tel Aviv
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ayelet Samerano, the mother of Yonatan Samerano, whose body is believed to be held in Gaza:
“If they (Hamas) want guarantees, we will give them guarantees that after the last hostages will back to Israel, we will stop the war. I'm telling you, Netanyahu, say yes. All our countries say yes, the families say yes. All the families, when we are saying, stop the war and give us the hostages back, that is the meaning. Not the opposite. So, if Hamas want us to stop the war, they should release all the hostages.”
7. Bracelet on hand of Ayelet Samerano, the mother of Yonatan Samerano, reading “Bring Yonatan”
8. Close of Yonatan Samerano photo, text reading “ Kidnapped, Jonathan Samerano, 21 years old, 143 LBS, 5’7 FEET.”
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ayelet Samerano, the mother of Yonatan Samerano, whose body is believed to be held in Gaza:
“It's again a selection, you know, all the families, we are right now standing and thinking, is it going to be my son? Isn't? What will be after part of them will come, what will be with the rest. (Taking deep breath) I can't describe what we are feeling.”
10. Photo of Yonatan Samerano, text reading (English) “I want to be back home too.”
11.SOUNDBITE (English) Ayelet Samerano, the mother of Yonatan Samerano, believed his body is being held in Gaza:
“We cannot wait, not another 30 days, 60 days, not even one day. To think about that, that we're going to wait 60 days and get just half of the hostages. And then what? Then another three, four, five months of negotiations. Because we all know Hamas is a terror organization. They will take it; they will take the time to reorganize themselves. And then they have some more times till we will come back again.”
12. Various of photos of hostages and people at hostages’ square.
STORYLINE:
Ayelet Samerano, the mother of Yonatan Samerano, whose body is believed to be held in Gaza, said on Friday that any agreement between Israel and Hamas must include all hostages, as their families cannot bear the pain of seeing only a chosen few released once again.
"It's again a selection, you know, all the families, we are right now standing and thinking, is it going to be my son? isn't? What will be after part of them will come, what will be with the rest," Samerano said in an interview with the Associated Press.
"I can't describe what we are feeling," she added.
Samerano, one of the hostage family members who met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, said Hamas' demand to end the war should only be met if they release all hostages.
"If they (Hamas) want guarantees, we will give them guarantees that after the last hostages will back to Israel, we will stop the war," she said.
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