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Weekend: Pressure grows on Israel to secure hostage release

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Pressure grows on Israel to secure hostage release

17/12/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Pressure grows on Israel to secure hostage release

Father of captive in Gaza urges government to do more

Hundreds of people gathered in Tel Aviv to demand the Israeli government to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas. Some of the families of the hostages met with US president Joe Biden this week. Among them was Jon Polin, father of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a 23-year-old man who was taken from the Supernova music festival in Israel. Jon and the Israeli peace activist and former hostage negotiator Gerson Baskin join us on the programme. 

Also in the programme: the International Organization for Migration says 61 migrants are believed to have drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya; and we speak to the author who believes social divisions can be healed by our curiosity.

Joining Julian Worricker on the programme are Michaela Kuefner, chief political editor of Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle, and Shashank Joshi, the defence editor of The Economist.

(Picture: Relatives and supporters rally for the release of hostages kidnapped by Hamas. Credit: Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters)

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