Thousands of people gathered on Saturday evening in the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Beersheba, among others, to demand return 136 hostages who remained in the Gaza Strip after 120 days of war And The end of Benjamin Netanyahu’s mandate.

In Tel Aviv, at the so-called Hostage Square, under the slogan “120 days underground”, referring to the Hamas tunnels in the Palestinian enclave where it is believed prisoners can still be held, relatives of the hostages demanded that Prime Minister Netanyahu return them.

‘For my generation to believe in this country, they must return now!– a 15-year-old teenager, the cousin of hostage Itai Chen, who turned 20 this week in captivity, addressed thousands of protesters, the Israeli newspaper reported. Haaretz.

The young woman later stated.

Mr. Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, bring them home at any cost! Do everything you can, everything to bring Itay and the rest of the hostages home alive.

Belonging An estimated 136 people remain in Hamas hands following a brutal attack carried out by an Islamist group on Israeli soil for the last time October 7thIntelligence estimates that at least 27 of them would already be dead, some even from Israeli fire during the massive military offensive launched in the Gaza Strip.

Both in Tel Aviv and in simultaneous protests in other cities around the country, protesters have also demanded the resignation of Netanyahu, whom they blame for economic mismanagement and blame for the deadly attack that took Israel by surprise on October 7.

Writer and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger, daughter of renowned Israeli writer Amos Oz, warned in a public speech during a protest in the northern city of Haifa that Israelis will not rest until ‘government of disaster and massacre I finished in the basement of the worst memories of the people of Israel” and begin better leadership.