‘We want our life back’: Tel Aviv protesters celebrate potential ceasefire with Hamas

Tel Aviv – Gili Coheb-Taguri, a heart-shaped balloon in his hand, posed for a 49-year-old material scientist wearing a suit of the Trump mask and a suit of the President’s tailoring flavors, posing for cameras and smartphones.

“This? This is an origami mask,” he said from a question that questioned. “And yes, I did it myself.”

COHEB-Taguri was one of the thousands of people who came to Courtyard Countage Square on Saturday evening in Tel Aviv, which has become the place of weekly protests, which secured the Israeli government’s return hostages by Hamas after 7 October 2023.

The first rally held after Hamas President Trump adopted a cease -fire offer on Friday, was just one of the similar events in Israel. Although the mood was gloomy, he felt more hopeful than the other protests that Coheb-Taguri participated in the last two years.

“The reason I wear this costume is to thank Trump for doing it.

“The key point for us is hostages,” he said. “It’s been two years and we want them back. We want our lives back.”

The Trump administration’s input of Israel and a series of Arabs and the US 20 -point plan prepared with a series of Arabs and Muslims would see the Palestinian militant group, the Gaza reins, and the 48 hostages given to the Technocratic, Apolitical Palestinian Committee directed by Trump.

Israel will be sentenced to life imprisonment in 1,700 prisoners from Gaza and in Israeli prisons. It will also enter the gradual withdrawal of the Gaza Strip and will not occupy or add the settlement. No Gaza residents will have to leave, and those who want to go back are encouraged to do so.

On Saturday night, as in the crowd, Coheb-Taguri and her husband 52-year-old Yossi Taguri thanked Trump for not being able to do Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: An agreement that would bring the hostages back.

Taguri, who uses Netanyahu’s pseudonym, said, “We are not our government. Bibi’s interest and our interests are not compatible,” he said.

Critics accuse Netanyahu of defeating the demands of pro -excessive ministers in the coalition of the government in order to extend the war and stay in power.

Taguri expected Netanyahu to find a way to sabotage the agreement once again.

“In this case, how many times, each one accepts and then something?” he said. “He’il find a way to blow him up.”

In a video statement published on Saturday evening, Netanyahu said that he hoped to announce the return of all hostages in the coming days, and that the Israeli army would protect the control of all dominant areas in the depths of the sherry ”in the first stage of the agreement.

Health officials at Enclave said that the scorching soil strategy in Gaza killed more than 67,000 people and left Gaza to the bear view of the rubble.

Hamas had accepted a series of proposals to end the war, including a ceasefire that Israel was held in March but unilaterally broken in March.

Netanyahu said he hoped that negotiations will be completed soon to conclude the agreement. After the hostage, “Hamas will be disarmed and Gaza will be militaryized.” He said.

“This will be in our hands, either through the diplomatic or military way of the Trump plan,” he added.

Hamas said he would only disarm his weapons in the context of delivering his weapons to a Palestinian state. Trump’s proposal did not directly handle the requirement of disarmament.

In an article on the social media site on Saturday, Trump said, “Hamas should move fast, otherwise all bets will be closed, ve and said,“ It will not tolerate the delay ”.

He also thanked Israel for saying that the bombing campaign was a temporary stop for a chance to give the agreement a chance. Israel did not stop bombing: Palestinian health officials said that at least 67 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since Saturday. Israeli media reported that the army was told to move on defense operations.

At the rally, thousands of people attended the manifestations of their call and response in the last two years of the war.

“Bring them back!” Omer Shem Tov shouted, a pledge was released on the previous prisoner stock exchange with a hostage. The crowd loudly “now!” Replied with.

Another speaker, actor Leor Ashkenazi began by thanking Trump.

Dor Jaliff, a 35 -year -old social worker standing among the crowd, shook his head with Trump’s word. Although he doesn’t count himself as a Trump supporter (he said, “I won’t run with the US flag or things like that,” he said, “he said he’d appreciate the influence of the President of the US.

“I wish our government saw hostages as the greatest priority like Trump. Look, I’m not happy that Trump joins Israel’s affairs, but at least someone is doing the job,” he said.

He said he was trying to remain hopeful about whether the agreement would pass.

“This is necessary to be optimistic. I want to feel optimistic,” he said.

In addition, in the crowd, his wife and son in the backup, 57 -year -old Mindy Rabinowitz was. He wore a sticker number 729 on his chest – the number of days since the beginning of the war.

Rabinowitz, the president of a university, made a ritual to come to the Pledge Square at least once a month, but often more. Nevertheless, before the ceasefire announcement on Friday, he wasn’t sure he would come this week. However, when he heard that Hamas accepted the deal late on Friday night, he thought differently.

“I turned to my wife and said, ‘Maybe we shouldn’t stay at home and watch it on TV. We should go.’

“Maybe the last time we will be in that square.”