Funeral held for Israeli hostage Almog Sarusi after his body among six recovered from Gaza

(1 Sep 2024)
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Ra'anana, Israel - 1 September 2024
1. Pan from family and relatives to body of hostage, Almog Sarusi,wrapped with Israeli flag
2. Father of Almog Sarusi, Igal Sarusi, in white shirt
3. Close father of Igal Sarusi
4. Mourners at funeral
5.SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Nira Sarusi, mother of Almog Sarusi:
“My beloved son. My love. We hoped, how we hoped, and prayed that we will see you again. To hug you, to see you smile.”
6. Mourners at funeral
7.SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Nira Sarusi, mother of Almog Sarusi:
“You were abandoned, you were abandoned on and on, daily, hour after hour, 331 days. You were sacrificed on the altar for collapsing Hamas, Rafah, the Philadelphi Corridor. You and so many beautiful and pure souls. Enough. No more. No more. "
8. Igal Sarusi reciting Kaddish prayers
9. Various of body of Sarusi wrapped with Israeli flag being carried for burial
10. Mourners at funeral
STORYLINE:
The funeral was held on Sunday for one of the six hostages whose bodies were recovered by the Israeli military from Gaza.
The military said the six were killed shortly before Israeli forces were to rescue them and that their bodies were found in a tunnel beneath the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
“You were abandoned,” said Nira, mother of Almog Sarusi, during her son’s funeral.
“You and so many beautiful and pure souls. Enough. No more. No more,“ she wept.
Almog was at the Nova music festival in southern Israel with his girlfriend of five years, who was killed in the Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, which triggered the war in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would hold Hamas accountable for killing the hostages in “cold blood,” and blamed the militant group for the stalled negotiations, saying “whoever murders hostages doesn’t want a deal."
A new wave of protests was set to begin on Sunday evening in Israel, fuelled by raw anger and grief over the deaths.
Many Israelis blame Netanyahu for failing to bring them back alive in a deal with Hamas to end the 10-month-old war.
Negotiations over such a deal have dragged on for months.
AP Video by Shlomo Mor
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