'Bring our people back': Israeli volunteers work for the release of some 200 hostages

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Euronews visited the Israeli Forum for the Hostages and Missing Families where both relatives and volunteers are working tirelessly to bring them home.

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00:00 At the headquarters of the Israeli Forum for the Hostages and Missing Families, lawyers,

00:05 doctors, psychologists and media experts are working around the clock to try to bring the

00:10 hostages back home.

00:12 Two weeks after the attacks, and with anxiety and anger rising amongst both families and

00:17 volunteers, our correspondent Valerie Goria has visited the forum.

00:22 We are here to ask all governments, all bodies in the world to bring our people back. It's

00:30 an unjustifiable, inhumane crime against humanity to hold innocent people hostage like this.

00:36 Any information about where they are, how they are doing, against dozens of people with

00:41 critical medical conditions that need life-saving medication that they are not receiving, and

00:45 we know nothing about what's happening.

00:48 There's also anger and frustration at the responses of their own government and the

00:52 international community.

00:57 Our people are not getting any sort of assistance. We've begged everyone, including the Red Cross,

01:01 including every international organisation and government, to provide medical care for

01:06 our loved ones and that's not happening. We're not receiving any form of aid.

01:12 Dual Israeli-German citizen Yarden Roman Gatt is among the missing. She was last seen desperately

01:18 handing her three-year-old daughter to her husband, Elon, as they fled Hamas gunmen in

01:22 the Be'arri kibbutz near Gaza.

01:25 I always hope that all those interviews, there are also groups of people in the Hamas that

01:32 are watching, and all I hope is that maybe they'll release a video showing that she's

01:39 safe and sound, saying how important it is for her daughter. How do you tell a three-year-old

01:47 that her grandmother was murdered by the bad people that got to her home? She saw them.

01:56 She understands. I was just scared that she'll ask, "Is that the same thing that they're

02:04 going to do to her?"

02:06 I don't even want to think about how they treat them, what they do with them. That's

02:12 going to be the new terror. That's going to be everywhere in the world. Today it's Israel

02:23 and it's in the Gaza border and it's Jewish people. But tomorrow, who knows?

02:33 Yarden and her husband managed to escape their abductor's car and as they ran, Yarden passed

02:37 her child to him. But she wasn't fast enough to escape the chasing gunman.

02:43 (whooshing)

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