Israeli families cling to hope for hostages’ survival as Israeli protests intensify, seeking an end to the Gaza war.
Israel's Gaza war nears its seventh month, intensifying international calls for a ceasefire. / Photo: AFP
Saturday's rally in Tel Aviv that took place as Hamas officials were meeting Egyptian and Qatari mediators in Cairo, relatives and supporters of the more than 130 hostages still in captivity said anything possible had to be done to bring them home."We need to bring them back. We need to bring all the hostages back, the live ones, the dead ones. We got to bring them back. We got to switch this government. This has got to end.
"The only thing that keeps us going is the hope that Bar is alive and surviving," said Ora Rubinstein, the aunt of Bar Kupershtein, who was seized along with more than 250 others when a Hamas-led attack through Israeli settlements near Gaza on Oct.7.Many of those taken hostage are believed to be dead but families want all of those taken to be brought back.
Tel Aviv, in comparison, has killed more than 34,600 Palestinians and wounded nearly 78,000 amid mass destruction and shortages of necessities in the Palestinian territory.
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