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Tuesday, August 5, 2025
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Tuesday, August 5, 2025
On 669th day of war, alumni of IDF’s Unit 669 sponsor banner over Ayalon calling for hostages’ release
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A banner over the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv sponsored by former members of the IDF's search and rescue Unit 669 calls for the release of the hostages and bears the unit’s motto, a quote from Psalms: “In your distress you called and I delivered you," August 5, 2025. (Adar Eyal/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
Alumni of the IDF’s search and rescue Unit 669 sponsor a banner over Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway, 669 days into the war in Gaza, calling for the release of hostages.
The unit’s Psalms motto is written on the banner: “In your distress you called and I delivered you.”
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