PARIS (AP) — Paris hosted an extra-special guest for France’s national holiday Sunday — the Olympic flame lighting up the city’s grandiose military parade for Bastille Day.
Just 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games, the torch relay joined up with thousands of soldiers, sailors, rescuers and medics marching in Paris beneath roaring fighter jets. And the day wrapped up with a spectacular Olympic-themed light show at the Eiffel Tower.
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PARIS (AP) — Paris hosted an extra-special guest for France’s national holiday Sunday — the Olympic flame lighting up the city’s grandiose military parade for Bastille Day.
Youths carry the Olympic torch during the Bastille Day parade Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
Jin, the oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, takes the Olympic torch, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. Jin will carry the Olympic torch in the area of Paris' Louvre Museum after recently completing his mandatory military service. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
French photographer JR, left, and athlete Sandra Laoura hold the Olympic torch in the courtyard of the Louvre museum Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
French President Emmanuel Macron stands fro the command car past the Arc de Triomphe during the Bastille Day parade in Paris, Sunday, July 14 2024. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP)
The Republican Guards arrive at the Arc de Triomphe during the Bastille Day parade in Paris, Sunday, July 14 2024. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP)
A large flag ornated with the Croix de Lorraine to commemorate the WWII Resistance, is displayed during the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Troops parade during the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
The Paris fire brigade parades during the Bastille Day parade Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal attend the Bastille Day parade Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
Troops of the Foreign Legion parade during the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Five Rafale jet fighters escort an Hawkeye 4F during the aerial Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Col. Thibault Vallette, of the Cadre Noir de Saumur, The French Horse and Riding Institute, carries the Olympic torch during the Bastille Day parade Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
Troops walk down the Foch avenue, with the Arc de Triomphe in background, during the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Youth present the Olympic torch to officials during the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
The jets of the Patrouille de France fly over the Arc de Triomphe during the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Col. Thibault Vallette, of the Cadre Noir de Saumur, carries the Olympic torch during the Bastille Day parade Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Prime Minister Gabriel Attal attend the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
A security officer takes position on a building roof before the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Police officers line up by the public before the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
French President Emmanuel Macron waves from the command car as he drives down the Avenue Foch during the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
French President Emmanuel Macron reviews the Republican Guards during the Bastille Day parade Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
FILE - Torchbearer Maxime Gohier waves to the audience as he holds the Olympic torch in front of the Mont-Saint-Michel, May 31, 2024, in Brittany, France. The Olympic torch relay is joining up with thousands of troops marching on Sunday, July 14, in Paris beneath roaring fighter jets to mark Bastille Day. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez, File)
Here's a look at what the holiday’s about, and what’s different this year:
On July 14, 1789, revolutionaries stormed the Bastille fortress and prison in Paris, heralding the start of the French Revolution and the end of the monarchy.
The holiday is central to the French calendar, with concerts and parties across the country. It aims to embody the national motto of ‘’liberty, equality and fraternity," though not everyone in France feels the country lives up to that promise.
The Paris parade is the holiday's highlight. This year, it paid tribute to those who freed France from Nazi occupation 80 years ago, with a re-enactment of the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944, and a presentation by service members from the 31 countries whose troops contributed to the liberation. About half are African nations that were under French colonial rule during World War II.
Some 4,000 people and 162 horses marched in the tightly choreographed parade, among them units that served in NATO missions in eastern Europe, against Islamic extremists in the Sahel, protecting French territories in the South Pacific and global shipping corridors. They were joined this year by three German officers from a cross-border brigade.
The ornamental uniforms are rich in symbolism — most notably those of the French Foreign Legion sappers, with long beards, leather aprons and axes from their original role as route-clearers for advancing armies.
Overhead, 65 aircraft flew in formations, including a British Typhoon fighter alongside French Mirages and Rafales, rescue helicopters and aircraft used in missions from Afghanistan to Mali or international drug busts.
President Emmanuel Macron kicked Sunday's events off with a review of the troops.
Military bands and choirs played an important role, performing a medley of French military songs, American jazz tunes, a Scottish bagpipe ballad — and the Marseillaise.
The numbers are scaled back compared with previous years, because of Olympics security measures. Around 130,000 police deployed around France for the holiday weekend.
This year’s Bastille Day offered Macron a moment of distraction from the political turmoil he unleashed with snap elections that weakened his pro-business centrist party and his presidency.
The result left a deadlocked parliament with no one clearly in charge. The prime minister could leave office within days, while the left-wing alliance that won the most seats is struggling to agree on a proposed replacement.
Meanwhile, Russia’s war in Ukraine is threatening Europe’s security. At a meeting with military leaders Saturday, Macron said France will keep up support for Ukraine and called for higher defense spending next year because of ‘’approaching threats.’’
The Olympic torch relay reached Paris just in time for the parade, escorted by riders on horseback, 25 torchbearers, and cadets dressed in the Olympic colors forming the shapes of the five interlocking Olympic rings.
The first torchbearer was Col. Thibault Vallette, equestrian gold medalist in the 2016 Rio Olympics, who passed it on to a group of young athletes smiling broadly as they passed it hand-to-hand in front of the presidential tribune.
After its Bastille Day appearance, the torch relay swung by Notre Dame Cathedral, the historic Sorbonne university and the Louvre Museum before it heads to other Paris landmarks Monday. Celebrities carrying it Sunday included K-pop star Jin of BTS and French tennis legend-turned-singer Yannick Noah.
Olympic venue construction meant the Bastille Day parade was rerouted, and spectators couldn't gather beneath the Eiffel Tower to watch the annual fireworks show.
But that, too, was all about the 2024 Games: While fireworks burst out from the tower itself, illuminated drones formed shapes representing Olympic sports, suspended over the adjacent Seine River — right where the opening ceremony is scheduled to take place July 26.
Nicolas Garriga, Oleg Cetinic and Philippe Marion in Paris contributed.
Follow AP's Olympics coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games
Jin, the oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, males a selfie with the Olympic torch, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. Jin will carry the Olympic torch in the area of Paris' Louvre Museum after recently completing his mandatory military service. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
Youths carry the Olympic torch during the Bastille Day parade Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
Jin, the oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, takes the Olympic torch, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. Jin will carry the Olympic torch in the area of Paris' Louvre Museum after recently completing his mandatory military service. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
French photographer JR, left, and athlete Sandra Laoura hold the Olympic torch in the courtyard of the Louvre museum Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
French President Emmanuel Macron stands fro the command car past the Arc de Triomphe during the Bastille Day parade in Paris, Sunday, July 14 2024. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP)
The Republican Guards arrive at the Arc de Triomphe during the Bastille Day parade in Paris, Sunday, July 14 2024. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP)
A large flag ornated with the Croix de Lorraine to commemorate the WWII Resistance, is displayed during the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Troops parade during the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
The Paris fire brigade parades during the Bastille Day parade Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal attend the Bastille Day parade Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
Troops of the Foreign Legion parade during the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Five Rafale jet fighters escort an Hawkeye 4F during the aerial Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Col. Thibault Vallette, of the Cadre Noir de Saumur, The French Horse and Riding Institute, carries the Olympic torch during the Bastille Day parade Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
Troops walk down the Foch avenue, with the Arc de Triomphe in background, during the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Youth present the Olympic torch to officials during the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
The jets of the Patrouille de France fly over the Arc de Triomphe during the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Col. Thibault Vallette, of the Cadre Noir de Saumur, carries the Olympic torch during the Bastille Day parade Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Prime Minister Gabriel Attal attend the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
A security officer takes position on a building roof before the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Police officers line up by the public before the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
French President Emmanuel Macron waves from the command car as he drives down the Avenue Foch during the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
French President Emmanuel Macron reviews the Republican Guards during the Bastille Day parade Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city's grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It's 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
FILE - Torchbearer Maxime Gohier waves to the audience as he holds the Olympic torch in front of the Mont-Saint-Michel, May 31, 2024, in Brittany, France. The Olympic torch relay is joining up with thousands of troops marching on Sunday, July 14, in Paris beneath roaring fighter jets to mark Bastille Day. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez, File)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages in Gaza, including a young Israeli-American man who became one of the most well-known captives held by Hamas as his parents met with world leaders and pressed for his release, including at the Democratic convention last month.
The military said all six had been killed shortly before they were to be rescued by Israeli forces. Their recovery sparked calls for mass protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who many families of hostages and much of the wider Israeli public blame 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.
In a separate development, gunmen shot and killed two people and wounded a third when they opened fire on a vehicle in the occupied West Bank, where Israel has been carrying out large-scale military raids in recent days. Israel's Magen David Adom rescue service confirmed the casualties.
Militants seized Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, and four of the other hostages at a music festival in southern Israel during Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, which triggered the war.
The native of Berkeley, California, lost part of his left arm to a grenade in the attack. In April, a Hamas-issued video showed him, his left hand missing and clearly speaking under duress, sparking new protests in Israel urging the government to do more to secure his and others’ freedom.
The army identified the other hostages as Ori Danino, 25; Eden Yerushalmi, 24; Almog Sarusi, 27; and Alexander Lobanov, 33; who were also taken from the music festival. The sixth, Carmel Gat, 40, was abducted from the nearby farming community of Be'eri.
It said the bodies were recovered from a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, around a kilometer (0.6 mile) from where another hostage, Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, was rescued alive last week.
“According to preliminary information, they were cruelly murdered by Hamas terrorists shortly before we reached them," Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesperson, told reporters.
Netanyahu has taken a tough line in negotiations and repeatedly said that military pressure is needed to bring home the hostages. According to Israeli media, he has feuded with top security officials who have said a deal should be reached urgently.
A forum of hostage families called for a massive protest on Sunday, demanding a “complete halt of the country” to push for the implementation of a cease-fire and hostage release.
“A deal for the return of the hostages has been on the table for over two months. Were it not for the delays, sabotage, and excuses those whose deaths we learned about this morning would likely still be alive. It’s time to bring our hostages home,” it said in a statement.
President Joe Biden, who had met with the parents, said he was “devastated and outraged.”
“It is as tragic as it is reprehensible,” he said. “Make no mistake, Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes. And we will keep working around the clock for a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages.”
The Goldberg-Polin family issued a statement early Sunday, hours after the Israeli army said it had located bodies in Gaza.
“With broken hearts, the Goldberg-Polin family is devastated to announce the death of their beloved son and brother, Hersh,” it said. “The family thanks you all for your love and support and asks for privacy at this time.”
Goldberg-Polin’s parents, U.S.-born immigrants to Israel, became perhaps the most high-profile relatives of hostages on the international stage. They met with Biden, Pope Francis and others and addressed the United Nations, urging the release of all hostages.
On Aug. 21, his parents addressed a hushed hall at the Democratic National Convention — after sustained applause and chants of “bring him home.”
“This is a political convention. But needing our only son — and all of the cherished hostages — home is not a political issue. It is a humanitarian issue,” said his father, Jon Polin. His mother, Rachel, who bowed her head during the ovation and touched her chest, said “Hersh, if you can hear us, we love you, stay strong, survive.”
Both wore stickers with the number 320, representing the number of days their son had been held. It had long become part of a morning ritual — tear a new piece of tape, write down another day.
“I find it so remarkable how nauseating it is every single time,’’ Rachel Goldberg-Polin told The Associated Press in January, ahead of the 100-day-mark. “And it’s good. I don’t want to get used to it. I don’t want anybody to get used to the fact that these people are missing.’’
She asked other people around the world to take up the ritual, too, not only for her son, who moved to Israel with his family when he was 7, but for the other hostages and their families.
She and her husband sought to keep their son and the others held from being reduced to numbers, describing Hersh as a music and soccer lover and traveler with plans to attend university since his military service had ended. At events she often addressed her son directly in the hope he could hear her, urging him to live another day.
Some 250 hostages were taken on Oct. 7. Before the military’s announcement of the latest discovery of bodies, Israel said it believed 108 hostages were still held in Gaza and about one-third of them were dead. In late August, the Israeli military recovered the bodies of six hostages in southern Gaza.
Eight hostages have been rescued by Israeli forces, the most recent found on Tuesday. More than 100 were freed during a weeklong cease-fire in November in exchange for the release of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
Two previous Israeli operations to free hostages killed scores of Palestinians. Hamas says several hostages have been killed in Israeli airstrikes and failed rescue attempts. Israeli troops mistakenly killed three Israelis who escaped captivity in December.
Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, when they stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, attacking army bases and several farming communities.
Israel's retaliatory offensive in Gaza has killed over 40,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, who do not say how many were fighters or civilians. It has displaced the vast majority of Gaza's 2.3 million people, often multiple times, and plunged the besieged territory into a humanitarian catastrophe.
Follow AP’s war coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war
Demonstrators lie on the ground in white plastic bags simulating dead bodies, take part in a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
People protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
People gather in front of a large screen displaying photos of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for their release, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
People protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Blindfolded and bounded wrists activists take part in a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
An activist wears theatrical blood, bound wrists and his mouth taped as relatives of hostages held by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and their supporters call for their immediate release and to protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Activists and relatives of hostages held by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip call for their immediate release and to protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Blindfolded and bounded wrists activists take part in a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Blindfolded and bounded wrists activists take part in a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
An activist wears theatrical blood, bound wrists and his mouth taped as relatives of hostages held by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and their supporters call for their immediate release and to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
An activist wears theatrical blood, bound wrists and his mouth taped as relatives of hostages held by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and their supporters call for their immediate release and to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
People protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
FILE - Rachel Goldberg, left, and Jon Polin center, parents of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, along with other relatives of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group take part in a protest calling for their release in the Kibbutz Nirim, southern Israel, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)
FILE - Jon Polin, left, and Rachel Goldberg, parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, speak on stage during the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - Jon Polin, left, and Rachel Goldberg, parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, pictured on screen speak during the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)