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Saturday, October 19, 2024
In Tel Aviv, protesters dress as hostage in Oct. 7 clip from Gaza to highlight her plight
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Dozens of women take part in a march around Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square to honor kidnapped surveillance soldier Naama Levy.
The women, most of them barefoot, wear gray sweatpants and black T-shirts, paying homage to what the 20-year-old wore when Hamas snatched her and four other surveillance soldiers from Nahal Oz base on October 7, 2023, abducting them to Gaza.
The march kicks off near an installation put up in recent days of five monitors, akin to the ones Levy and other kidnapped surveillance soldiers would have used on the job.
The women’s hands are painted red and bound with zip-locks — similar to Levy in a clip from October 7 of a Palestinian terrorist dragging her out of a jeep in Gaza — as they encircle the square in eerie silence. They enter the mock tunnel installed there and then line up at the front of the square, before the stage that is set to feature Tel Aviv’s first pro-hostage deal rally in weeks.
The public display will continue until the rally starts at 8 p.m.
The rallies in Tel Aviv have been on hold since late September due to IDF Home Front restrictions amid escalating fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Some 50 women, painted with faux blood, enter the mock Hamas tunnel at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square clad in gray sweatpants and black T-shirts, in honor of surveillance soldier Naama Levy, who wore that outfit when she was injured and abducted at Nahal Oz base on Oct. 7, 2023. pic.twitter.com/Pldat8ukc0
— Noam Lehmann (@noamlehmann) October 19, 2024
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