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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaTens of thousands of Israelis rally in Tel Aviv demanding Gaza hostage dealPublished55 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warThis video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Media caption, Watch: Protesters demonstrate in Tel Aviv demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resignationBy Ido VockBBC NewsOpponents of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu say 100,000 people have rallied against the government and to demand a Gaza hostage deal. The rallies in Tel Aviv and other cities came after the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) recovered the body of hostage Elad Katzir.Protesters chanted “elections now”, and “Elad, we’re sorry”, local media said. Both Israelis and Palestinians are preparing to mark six months of war on Sunday.Anti-government protesters were joined by families of hostages held in Gaza. Demonstrators expressed their frustration with the government’s inability to free the around 130 hostages who remain in Gaza, held by Hamas and its allies. Earlier on Saturday the IDF recovered the body of Elad Katzir, who was seized and taken to Gaza during the Hamas attacks on southern Israel on 7 October. He appeared alive in a hostage video released in January.”Elad Katzir managed to survive three months in captivity. He should have been with us today. He could have been with us today,” protester Noam Peri told a BBC reporter. Organisers said the protesters had rallied in around 50 locations across Israel. These were the latest of a series of huge anti-government protests demanding that Prime Minister Netanyahu step down, amid fury that he has failed to free the remaining hostages.A car ploughed into crowds at the protest in Tel Aviv, injuring five. The cause of the incident was unclear. On Sunday – exactly six months since the Hamas attacks triggered the war in Gaza – negotiators plan to meet in Cairo to attempt to reach a ceasefire in the brutal war.According to some media reports, CIA Director Bill Burns and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani will join negotiators from Egypt, Israel and Hamas. Six months on, how close is Israel to eliminating Hamas?Stories of the hostages taken by Hamas from IsraelSunak marks six months since start of Israel-Gaza warMr Katzir’s sister, Carmit Palty Katzir, blamed Israeli authorities for her brother’s death in a post on social media, saying he would have returned alive had they agreed a new truce deal.”Our leadership is cowardly and driven by political consideration, which is why this deal has not happened yet,” she wrote on Facebook.”Prime Minister, war cabinet, and coalition members: Look at yourself in the mirror and say if your hands didn’t spill blood.”The 7 October Hamas attacks killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians.Over 33,000 people have been killed during Israel’s offensive in Gaza since then, the Hamas-run health ministry says – many of them women and children. According to Israeli counts, 253 Israelis and foreigners were taken during the Hamas attacks.About 129 hostages remain unaccounted for after being kidnapped – at least 34 of them are presumed dead. 12 bodies have been recovered by the IDF.Israel gives a slightly higher official figure because it includes four people taken hostage in 2014 and 2015. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaHuge push for Gaza aid – but little hope for those sufferingPublished1 hour agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warBy Quentin SommervilleBBC News, Doha, QatarThe Qatar Emiri Air Force cargo plane, a hulking grey C17, sat by a runway at the sprawling Al Udeid airbase. Deep inside, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron, in black loafers and sweater, attempted to push a pallet of humanitarian aid for Gaza into the aircraft. It wouldn’t budge. He stepped back while burly Qatari airmen in combat fatigues made some adjustments. But the former British prime minister wasn’t giving up, and with a sudden shift, the bundle – part of nearly 30 tonnes of aid including tents and food – began to move into the belly of the plane.Lord Cameron’s latest Middle East tour was aimed at helping to broker a permanent ceasefire to the conflict, the release of the more than 132 remaining hostages, and an increase in the aid getting into Gaza on a daily basis. He’s putting in a lot of effort, but so far at least, has little to show for it. Standing by the plane’s enormous wings, Lord Cameron told me: “Nobody wants this conflict to go on a moment longer than necessary. But I’ve always understood that you won’t have a proper ceasefire if you’ve still got Hamas in place, able to launch attacks on Israel. “Everyone has to understand, that must be dismantled, otherwise no peace, no ceasefire will be sustainable.”His latest round of in-person diplomacy (the day before he met Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas) came in advance of this weekend’s talks under way in France, to free the hostages and pause hostilities. But there still appears little prospect the suffering will end soon in Gaza. There’s a chasm between the aid Gaza needs, and will need for years to come, and what it is currently receiving. While Israel’s bombardment of Gaza continues, the flow of aid is being drip-fed into the strip. Britain says 500 trucks a day are needed to provide basic needs – most days fewer than 200 make it inside. On one day this month, only 30 crossed into Gaza. Image caption, Lord Cameron with Qatar’s Minister of State for International Cooperation at Al Udeid airbase, Doha, Qatar”It’s vital we can actually get it into Gaza and crucially, once it’s in Gaza, get it around Gaza,” Lord Cameron said. “What I was saying yesterday to the Israelis, they’ve got to deal with the bottlenecks. They’ve got to make sure the crossing points are opened more often. They’ve got to make sure the checking is done more quickly. They’ve got, crucially, to give the visas to the UN staff and the trucks that the UN staff need to get the aid around Gaza.”Nine out of 10 people are living on one meal a day in Gaza, according to the World Food Programme. All aid is subject to stringent inspections by Israel which does not want anything to get inside that could benefit Hamas. Qatar and Britain are allies, the Gulf emirate and Israel are not. It hosts the Hamas political leadership, and has been a key mediator in talks to release the hostages still held by the group, which is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by several countries.Qatar helped secure the previous week-long ceasefire in November that led to the freeing of 105 hostages taken in the attack of 7 October, which killed 1,300 people. But as David Cameron arrived in Doha, a recording of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was leaked in which he described Qatar’s role as a mediator in the Gaza war as “problematic”. The British foreign secretary dismissed the criticism and said that Qatar’s role was “helpful”.Qatar said it was appalled at the Israeli prime minister’s remarks, which came just before this weekend’s meeting in France, which will bring together William Burns, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, his Israeli counterpart, David Barnea and Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani. The Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel will also attend. The talks are aimed at freeing the Israeli captives and establishing a ceasefire, however wide the gap between Israel and Hamas’s demands. Hosting Lord Cameron at the airbase was Lolwah Rashid Al-Khater, Qatar’s Minister of State for International Cooperation. Some 12 tonnes of aid on the plane are from Qatar, and even this joint consignment is far from enough said the minister. This video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Media caption, Watch: Qatari minister Lolwah Rashid al-Khater says “many bottlenecks, man-created obstacles” are holding up aid for Gaza”On some days, these past days, even less than 100 [trucks make it into Gaza]. This situation is very difficult. There are many bottlenecks. And as a matter of fact, man-created obstacles, I should say. According to the 4th Geneva Convention article 59, it is the obligation on the occupying power, in this case it would be Israeli occupation, to ensure adequate levels of aid, supplies, and aid schemes,” she told me. And in some cases, the wrong type of aid is being sent, the Qatari diplomat said. One recent consignment from a foreign donor was full of covid tests, she said. As the cargo plane filled with tents climbed slowly into the clear blue desert sky, Lolwah Al-Khater had one final point to make: “It’s very important to emphasise,” she said, “that aid can never and should never be substituting the need for an immediate and a permanent ceasefire. “Unfortunately, some actors have been trying to promote that we need more aid without doing enough on the other front.”The situation inside Gaza is dire – at least 1.7m people have been displaced, some multiple times. The 285 family tents from Qatar and Britain will go to Unicef in Gaza and house up to five people in each tent. 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