Israelis go on strike as hostage deaths trigger demand for Gaza deal
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🗓️ 2 September 2024
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning and happy Labor Day. I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday |
| 0:15.7 | September 2nd, 2024. This is the excerpt. Today protests in Israel after bodies of hostages were recovered. |
| 0:26.4 | Plus a closer look at the struggles for those left behind who helped the US during the |
| 0:31.0 | war in Afghanistan, and our starter home still part of the American dream. |
| 0:37.0 | Massive protests and general strikes are sweeping across Israel as frustration and anger mounts over the failure of Israeli |
| 0:44.9 | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to secure a ceasefire deal with Hamas that would |
| 0:50.0 | free Israeli hostages held by the militant group in Gaza for nearly 11 months. |
| 0:55.1 | The actions come after Israel's military recovered the bodies of six hostages, including |
| 0:59.7 | Israeli-American Hirsch Goldberg-Polen from a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Raffa. |
| 1:05.0 | Israeli Health Ministry said the hostages appeared to have been shot at close range |
| 1:09.0 | two to three days before the bodies were recovered. |
| 1:12.0 | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized for not bringing them home alive. |
| 1:17.0 | Protesters are demanding that Netanyahu do more to bring home the remaining 101 hostages, |
| 1:22.0 | about a third of whom Israeli officials estimate |
| 1:25.3 | have died in captivity. |
| 1:27.2 | O'Free Bibas, a relative of three hostages taken by Hamas and its October 7th attacks |
| 1:32.1 | on Israel, including a nine-month-old baby, said, |
| 1:35.0 | quote, they could have returned to us alive through a deal, unquote. |
| 1:38.0 | Yesterday, an estimated 500,000 people demonstrated in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and other cities across Israel. |
| 1:46.0 | Hamas and other militants killed about 1,200 people and took around 250 hostages |
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