'I want her back now': Families of hostages held by Hamas call for their immediate release
Families continue to call for the return of dozens of hostages - including women and children - who were abducted by Hamas during the group’s unprecedented attack last week.
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00:00 Like every Saturday in Tel Aviv for the past 39 weeks, political activists have come together
00:06 to protest the government in front of the Israeli Defense Ministry.
00:09 But for the first Sabbat, the Jewish day of rest since Hamas`s attack a week ago,
00:14 they have come to support the families of hostages and demand their immediate release.
00:19 This is my daughter, Liri Elbad. She was beaten up in her pajamas every morning to Gaza.
00:28 And I want her back now. She was in the military. She was in the army base.
00:34 She`s 18 years old. She don`t want to fight. I believe also in Gaza, they don`t want to fight.
00:41 Nobody want to fight. Everybody just want to live.
00:45 Avishai`s wife and two children were abducted in their home near the border with Gaza.
00:50 He`s not heard from them since.
00:53 There is a reason that it has been done. Somebody or something is trying to tell us something.
01:01 And what I want to believe is trying to tell us peace, not war. We are all humans. Nobody wants that.
01:11 The fact that they are dehumanizing all the Gazans and all the Palestinians is actually,
01:20 at the end, it will be against Israelis.
01:24 To be against Hamas does not mean that we have to kill one child in Gaza.
01:29 At least 150 hostages were abducted by Hamas last week,
01:33 and the militant group claims that more than 20 of them have since been killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
01:40 There`s more than a lot of devotions here from the families who are demanding the release of their relatives who are taken hostage.
01:47 But everyone we`ve spoken to are also demanding for the politics which they say have contributed to what`s happened to stop.
01:55 I`m Valeria Goria, I`m telling you the Euronews.
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