{"id":597732,"date":"2023-11-15T03:02:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T00:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/pro-israel-rally-aims-to-keep-focus-on-hostages-bring-them-home\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T03:02:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T00:02:12","slug":"pro-israel-rally-aims-to-keep-focus-on-hostages-bring-them-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pro-israel-rally-aims-to-keep-focus-on-hostages-bring-them-home\/","title":{"rendered":"#Pro-Israel rally aims to keep focus on hostages: \u2018Bring them home\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/israel_hostages_111423_AP.jpeg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hundreds of \u201ckidn<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed\u201d posters with the names and faces of those taken hostage by Hamas circulated through the crowd of pro-Israel demonstrators who descended on D.C. on Tuesday, with dozens more pinned to the surrounding guardrails. <\/p>\n<p>As rally organizers played a video showing the faces of the hostages, chants of \u201cbring them home\u201d echoed across the National Mall. And when Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) took the stage, he had a succinct message for Hamas. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cLet them go. Bring them home,\u201d Schumer said, prompting further calls from the audience.  <\/p>\n<p>The March for Israel drew tens of thousands of pro-Israel demonstrators \u2014 and small pockets of counter protestors \u2014 to downtown D.C., the biggest crowd since a pro-Palestinian protest in the capital earlier this month, which featured calls for a cease-fire in the war. <\/p>\n<p>As global pressure rises on Israel to halt it\u2019s retaliatory attacks on Gaza, which have killed some 10,000 civilians, Tuesday\u2019s event sought to focus attention on the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that terrorized Israel, and the more than 200 hostages still being held by the militant group. <\/p>\n<p>Several protestors argued calls for a cease-fire should be conditional upon the release of the hostages. Eileen Terzi, a protestor from New York, called the talks of cease-fire \u201cridiculous.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. should be saying \u2018free the hostages.\u2019 No talk of cease-fire. Why is there even talk of cease-fire?\u201d she told The Hill. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is the onus on Israel to do anything?\u201d she continued. \u201cWe didn\u2019t kidnap anyone, we didn\u2019t murder anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, is believed to have taken about 240 individuals during the group\u2019s brutal incursion into Israel that killed more than 1,200 people, including women and children. Only four hostages have been released since the beginning of the conflict last month. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces have bombarded Gaza with attacks both by air and land on a campaign to destroy Hamas. The rising death toll, coupled with sieges on basic necessities, have prompted calls for a cease-fire to allow civilians to leave or aid to be delivered. <\/p>\n<p>Brian Tranter, who is from Florida, told The Hill the U.S must let Israel \u201cdo its job,\u201d while holding a sign showing an American and Israeli flag with the words \u201cWe stand with Israel.\u201d  <\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s time for a cease-fire. I think if the hostages were released, I would support a cease-fire. But until the hostages are released, no cease-fire,\u201d Tranter said. \u201cObviously we try to minimize any civilian casualties, but the job has to be finished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (La.) argued the calls for a cease-fire are \u201coutrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese Israeli hostages were kidnapped in their homes by barbaric Hamas terrorists for simply being Jewish and living in Israel,\u201d Johnson told the crowd. \u201cAs Prime Minster [Benjamin Netanyahu] says so well, this is a fight between good and evil, between light and darkness, between civilization and barbarism.\u201d <\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The rally heard from Alana Zeitchik, who claims six of her relatives were captured by Hamas. She told the crowd the calls for peace and the return of hostages doesn\u2019t need to be political. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for too many in the West, the suffering of hostage families like mine has become a footnote,\u201d Zeitchik said. \u201cCollateral damage in service of some perceived higher universal truth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can call for peace and the im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te return of the innocent men, women and children who were violently taken from us,\u201d Zeitchik said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t need to be political to share in my grief or in the anguish that the Israeli people are feeling. To demand the release of the hostages is not an act of politics, nor is it a cry for war.\u201d <\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Not all demonstrators, however, said a cease-fire should be contingent on the release of hostages. One demonstrator was holding a sign that read: \u201cFree hostages now. Stop killing civilians on both sides. This Jewish woman is pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I both love Israel and critical justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Biden on Tuesday struck an optimistic tone when asked about the hostages. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been talking with the people involved every single day. I believe it\u2019s going to happen. But I don\u2019t want to get into detail,\u201d he told reporters at the White House.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The White House has also called for \u201chumanitarian pauses\u201d in the fighting in Gaza to allow for more aid into the enclave, and for civilians to leave embattled areas. But it has resisted calls for a cease-fire and backed Israel\u2019s aim of eliminating Hamas. <\/p>\n<p>Asked what he would say to families of those being held by Hamas, Biden said, \u201cHang in there, we\u2019re coming.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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