Tens of 1000’s took to the streets throughout Israel on Saturday night time to name on the federal government to urgently comply with a ceasefire deal for the discharge of the hostages held by terror teams in Gaza, a day after safety providers introduced they’d recovered the our bodies of two captives from the Strip.
On Friday, the IDF and Shin Guess stated they recovered the physique of slain hostage Ilan Weiss and the stays of a second hostage, who was identified Saturday as Idan Shtivi, each killed throughout Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught in southern Israel.
Marking the one-year anniversary of the homicide of six hostages by their Hamas captors as Israeli troops neared, hostages’ households urged the federal government to abort its plans to overcome Gaza Metropolis, arguing that navy stress solely endangers the captives.
Earlier than the principle rallies in Tel Aviv, the Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board acknowledged: “As plans transfer ahead to overcome Gaza Metropolis, a hostage deal stays stalled on the negotiating desk – serving as a painful reminder of final yr’s lesson: navy stress kills hostages.”
The assertion referenced the killing of Alexander Lobanov, Carmel Gat, Ori Danino, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi and Almog Sarusi by their Hamas captors final yr.
The rallies additionally got here hours after Channel 12 reported that Sunday’s safety cupboard assembly would once more not focus on the partial ceasefire deal that Hamas stated it agreed to weeks in the past, regardless of stress from safety chiefs, who’re stated to be planning on presenting a united front in favor of the deal in the course of the assembly.
Households of Israelis held hostage in Gaza, former hostages and supporters maintain a press convention in Tel Aviv on August 30, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
The deal in query envisions the discharge of 10 hostages together with the our bodies of 18 slain captives over a 60-day truce, throughout which the perimeters will maintain talks on the phrases of the discharge of the remaining hostages and a everlasting finish to the battle. The federal government has but to formally focus on the proposed deal, and regardless of it being practically an identical to a suggestion authorized by Jerusalem solely final month.
Reacting to the report, the Hostages Households Discussion board stated it was “additional proof” that the federal government “is popping to perpetual battle and sacrificing the hostages, fully towards the need of the individuals.”
Talking outdoors the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, the daddy of Hamas hostage Eitan Horn excoriated the federal government as “deranged” and playing with the lives of his son and of the opposite hostages.
“Whereas my son is combating for his life in captivity and a complete nation is combating to get him out of there, the federal government intends to occupy the Strip and gamble on his life and the lives of the residing hostages, to make the lifeless disappear without end and likewise gamble on our heroic troopers,” Itzik Horn stated forward of the mass rally for the hostages.
“Sitting within the authorities and cupboard are a bunch of deranged individuals that each citizen of Israel must ask whether or not these persons are worthy of constructing selections about their destiny,” Horn stated. “They don’t need them again, and so they don’t deserve to guide us.”
Einav Zangauker speaks at a press convention forward of of protests in Tel Aviv on August 30, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
Additionally talking outdoors the IDF headquarters, Einav Zangauker, mom of Hamas-held hostage Matan Zangauker, addressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying she would maintain him personally accountable if her son finally ends up being killed in Gaza and would attempt to have him charged with homicide.
“We preserve having to cope with mendacity spin from Netanyahu,” she stated.
“If Matan comes again in a physique bag, it received’t solely be Matan and me who pay the worth,” she stated, addressing Netanyahu. “I’ll personally be certain that you face expenses of premeditated homicide.”
Protests urge Trump to ‘make historical past’
At Tel Aviv’s Hostages Sq., 1000’s gathered as Gil Dickmann, the cousin of slain hostage Carmel Gat, referred to as on the gang to assemble in Jerusalem this week to demand a ceasefire and stress authorities officers straight.
“This coming week, we are going to go as much as Jerusalem with one name, a deal earlier than it’s too late!” stated Dickmann from the stage.
Gil Dickmann, cousin of slain hostage Carmel Gat, speaks in Hostages Sq., august 30, 2025 (Lior Rotstein / Hostages Households Discussion board)
In English, Dickmann appealed to US President Donald Trump to stress Israel’s authorities into signing a deal to finish the battle.
“My cousin Carmel Gat was murdered in captivity one yr in the past; you weren’t president then, you weren’t there to save lots of her. When you had been president then, possibly she’d be alive right here immediately,” stated Dickmann, who’s a twin Israeli-American citizen.
“Don’t let Bibi idiot you want he fooled resident Biden, save these hostages, Mr. President, such as you saved so many others,” he continued, utilizing Netanyahu’s nickname. “President Trump, finish this battle now!”
Organizers then unfurled a large banner seen from the sky that learn: “Trump, make historical past.”
Protesters show a big banner calling for US President Donald Trump to convey an finish to the battle in Gaza, free the hostages, at a protest in Tel Aviv on August 30, 2025. (Yair Palti/Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board)
Tuval Haim, the brother of slain hostage Yotam Haim, who was mistakenly killed by IDF troops in Gaza in December 2023, informed the gang at Hostages Sq. that the continued struggling of the hostages in captivity attested to “our failure as a state.”
“How can it’s that ministers take pleasure in thwarting offers, whereas hostages are being murdered in tunnels?” he requested. “How can it’s that the person who shot Yotam didn’t even obtain a photograph of him and didn’t know what he seemed like?”
He stated that it was solely after IDF troops unintentionally shot his brother, alongside two different hostages, Alon Shamriz and Samar Talalka, that the IDF chief of employees started to distribute images of the hostages to troopers in Gaza.
“They promised us that Yotam would come again, they stated they knew the place he was, they stated he was on his method dwelling,” he stated, teary-eyed. “At the moment I really feel like they lied to us, that they didn’t really give each effort then and nonetheless aren’t immediately. They informed us he was the primary precedence, however they really had completely different objectives.”
“At the moment is my birthday, the second birthday wherein I don’t get a hug and a blessing from Yotam,” he lamented. “What I want for myself is that nobody will ever should undergo what I went by means of, that they’ll get their siblings again in order that they’ll sing with them.”
Households of hostages held within the Gaza Strip and supporters attend a rally calling for the discharge of hostages held in Gaza, at Hostage Sq. in Tel Aviv, August 30, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
Moshe Or, the brother of Hamas-held hostage Avinatan Or, informed the gang that “what we haven’t achieved in two years of battle, we more than likely received’t obtain in years to return.”
“However for the hostages, they’ve one thing to lose daily, each night time. Their lives, their well being, their soul. Each second of hesitation prices them, and us, an unbearably heavy worth,” he added, demanding that the federal government negotiate a deal to launch all of the hostages in a single fell swoop.
“We want a deal already, and that deal should be one cope with everybody collectively. Not the Witkoff define, not in waves — everybody, collectively,” he declared, referencing US particular Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff’s partial ceasefire define that has been the premise of all negotiations since Trump entered workplace, together with the deal that Hamas just lately stated it agreed to.
Or stated that the final time he noticed his brother was on his daughter’s third birthday, practically two years in the past, and that she is now nearly 5 years outdated.
“How do you clarify to somewhat woman why her uncle isn’t coming again? He’s alive however not right here. Why does he not go to her?” he stated.
“Amid all of this, the general public agenda is occupied with different issues. The federal government is coping with flight plans to Uman and different nonsense,” he stated, referring to the yearly Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage made by many Hasidic Jews to the Ukrainian metropolis.
“How is it potential that the beating coronary heart of this nation, our hostages, is just not on the high of the precedence checklist?”
Demonstrators conflict with police throughout a protest close to the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, calling for the discharge of hostages held within the Gaza Strip, August 30, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
In Jerusalem, a whole bunch of protesters marched in the direction of the US Embassy within the metropolis, holding indicators calling on Trump to push Israel in the direction of a ceasefire.
Protesters additionally gathered close to the Prime Minister’s Residence, the place they blocked roads and clashed with police.
Netanyahu’s residence, in addition to the houses and workplaces of different high officers, are set to turn into the main focus of upcoming protests led by the Hostages Households Discussion board, as they give the impression of being to straight enchantment to resolution makers in an try to push them to make a deal.
Protesters march throughout an indication for the discharge of hostages outdoors the US Embassy in Jerusalem on August 30, 2025. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)
The discussion board stated it plans to stage a serious protest in Jerusalem on Wednesday, following up on the a number of main protests days which have taken place over the previous few weeks.
Terror teams within the Gaza Strip are holding 48 hostages, together with 47 of the 251 kidnapped by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023. They embrace the our bodies of not less than 26 confirmed lifeless by the IDF. Twenty are believed to be alive, and there are grave considerations for the well-being of two others, Israeli officers have stated. Hamas can be holding the physique of an IDF soldier killed in Gaza in 2014.
Hamas launched 30 hostages — 20 Israeli civilians, 5 troopers, and 5 Thai nationals — and the our bodies of eight slain Israeli captives throughout a ceasefire between January and March, and one extra hostage, a twin American-Israeli citizen, in Might as a “gesture” to the USA.
Demonstrators maintain indicators calling for the discharge of hostages held in Gaza, at Hostage Sq. in Tel Aviv, August 30, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
The fear group freed 105 civilians throughout a weeklong truce in late November 2023, and 4 hostages have been launched earlier than that within the early weeks of the battle. In change, Israel has freed some 2,000 jailed Palestinian terrorists, safety prisoners, and Gazan terror suspects detained in the course of the battle.
Eight hostages have been rescued from captivity by troops alive, and the our bodies of 51 have additionally been recovered, together with three mistakenly killed by the Israeli navy as they tried to flee their captors, and the physique of a soldier who was killed in 2014.
