Thousands of people have gathered in Tel Aviv to celebrate the return of the four women and to call for the release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas. Eyal Kalderon's cousin is one of the hostages who has not been released in the first stage of the ceasefire. He spoke to Middle East Correspondent Matthew Doran.
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00:00He was kidnapped with his two children, Erez and Sar, that were released in the first deal,
00:08in the 52nd day of the deal, and still, since then, 422 days were passed, he's still there.
00:22We know that he saw his children, he saw their release, so we are just hoping that it gave
00:30him power to survive there.
00:34We are hoping, we are praying, and we know that he's a survivor.
00:39So we are just praying and hoping to see him as soon as possible, hugging his four children,
00:49and we are fighting for that, and we'll do everything until he will come home.
00:54Something that we've heard from speaking to a lot of people at rallies like this over
00:57the last few weeks is a bit of criticism, sometimes anger, towards the Israeli government
01:03and how they've handled this process, trying to get a deal.
01:08Is that a sentiment that you would share?
01:11Like I said, we are having a great pain for this, at least 30 hostages that were murdered
01:19there or were killed by IDF operations in Gaza.
01:26So we are very disappointed, we are very angry that we waited for 471 days, this deal was
01:37supposed to be signed maximum in May.
01:42So of course we are very disappointed.