'Bring them home.' Hostages' families cry.
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🗓️ 4 September 2024
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Summary
Emhoff was one of more than a thousand people attending a prayer vigil dedicated to six hostages recently killed by Hamas. Their bodies were recovered over the weekend.
The deaths of the six hostages comes as it's been more than 300 days since Hamas took more than 240 people hostage after it attacked Israel on October 7th. As the days in captivity drag on, many have been killed, and their families live in agony.
One of those family members is LeElle Slifer, who's cousin Carmel Gat was one of the six hostages killed. She shares what her cousin meant to her and what her family wants from the Israeli government.
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| 0:00.0 | It is good to actually be together tonight, together as a community. |
| 0:09.0 | It was a night of mourning on Tuesday when Doug Imhoff, second gentleman and the first Jewish spouse to a US |
| 0:16.0 | president or vice president, spoke at the Addis Israel congregation in |
| 0:21.1 | Washington DC. This isC. This is hard. |
| 0:24.0 | This is raw. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm gutted. |
| 0:28.0 | And I know you all are too. |
| 0:30.0 | More than a thousand people |
| 0:32.0 | attended a prayer vigil dedicated to six hostages recently |
| 0:37.1 | killed by Hamas. Their bodies were recovered over the weekend. Their names were Carmel Gott, Edden Yurushami, Alexander Lubinoff, Almog Serusi, Ory Danino, and Hirsch Goldberg Pollen. |
| 0:51.2 | I send each of the families my deepest sympathies for what we are all going through and |
| 0:58.4 | for the sickening feeling that we all could not save them. |
| 1:03.0 | The vigil played a video of the eulogy given by Hershey's mother Rachel Goldberg |
| 1:08.3 | Pollen in Jerusalem. |
| 1:10.1 | There she spoke of the hope she felt that a ceasefire deal could have saved her son |
| 1:14.8 | It tasted close, but it was not to be so. Leot Corinne, whose 21-year-old cousin remains in captivity, also spoke at the vigil. |
| 1:26.6 | I believe that a deal is the only viable path to turn the stories of horror into stories of hope and resilience for all of us. |
| 1:37.0 | Demands for a ceasefire intensified on Monday when nationwide protests in Israel brought much of that country to a standstill. |
| 1:47.0 | The streets in downtown Tel Aviv were packed with people stretching for blocks and blocks. |
| 1:56.2 | They were shutting down intersections, people were climbing on top of bus stops. |
| 1:59.8 | And Pierre's Kat Lonsdorf reporting from Tel Aviv. |
| 2:03.1 | Every single person I talked to last night |
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