00:00A sit-in in Tel Aviv in front of the Likud party headquarters, Prime Minister Benjamin
00:05Netanyahu's party.
00:07Among the demonstrators is Yehuda Cohen, whose son Nimrod has been held by Hamas in Gaza
00:14for 22 months.
00:16He wants his son back.
00:19Only ending the war and a full withdrawal of the IDF from the Gaza Strip will bring
00:25all the hostages.
00:26The reason it's not happening is because Netanyahu is only working for his personal
00:31interest.
00:32Netanyahu is only working for his coalition interest.
00:37We have those Smotrich and Bengvir who said out loud they don't want to end the war.
00:43Not ending the war is actually saying we don't want Nimrod Cohen, my son, be released.
00:50And that's even though there's widespread support among Israelis to end the war to get
00:56all the hostages out.
00:5885% of people want to stop the war and have all the 50 hostages returned, 49 male hostages
01:07and one female.
01:09We know 20 of them are still alive.
01:11We want an agreement to bring all of them back at once and to stop this terrible war, which
01:17at this point we understand only serves the government.
01:24According to the deal that was being discussed by Israel and Hamas, only half of the 20 living
01:31hostages would be allowed home.
01:34It sparked a painful debate about who gets to decide their fate.
01:39Yehuda Cohen last heard from his son through other hostages released in February.
01:45He was captured while serving as a soldier at the Gaza border on October 7.
01:50My son Nimrod, soldier, one of the youngest there.
01:54He's not a father.
01:55He's not wounded.
01:56He doesn't have any diseases, so he'll be the last to come out, I must admit.
02:04But truth is the truth, and that's why we are fighting for a total deal for releasing
02:12all the hostages.
02:13That's why we are fighting for the end of the war.
02:18The group moves on to join a larger demonstration at Habima Square in central Tel Aviv.
02:27Some Israelis hold pictures of Palestinian children killed in Gaza and the hunger crisis.
02:33But the humanitarian situation in Gaza is not the main focus of the protest here.
02:39It's about the hostages and their plight and captivity.
02:43Yehuda Cohen is frustrated about the lack of progress.
02:46We didn't raise hopes of what's going on because we saw it in the past.
02:52We saw it more than a year going on along with Netanyahu's sabotaging deal.
02:58Well, unfortunately, we are used to it.
03:01We are not raising hope because we don't want to be disappointed and we are disappointed.
03:11Cohen says he tries to keep going.
03:13But his faith in the government to secure Diazun remains low.
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