For the demonstrators (here, upon their arrival in Jerusalem on Saturday), “there will be no victory for the State of Israel without the return of the hostages.” RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS
REPORT – Saturday evening, at the end of a strange and desperate five-day pilgrimage, thousands of people demanded from the government the release of the hostages held by Hamas.
Correspondent in Jerusalem
On Yair Moses’ white t-shirt is written in black letters the motto of Nir Oz, kibbutz martyr of October 7: “I will not stop along the way. I will open new paths.” Like the crowd gathered around him, this sturdy fifty-year-old walked for five days from Tel Aviv. On this Saturday evening, at the end of a strange and desperate pilgrimage, here he is in Jerusalem. His stature dominates the multitude gathered in front of the Prime Minister’s offices. Sign in hand, he brandishes two photos: posters, similar to those which now cover facades and windows all over Israel. We see the faces of his mother, Margalit, 77 years old, and his father, Gadi, 79 years old.
Residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz, they were kidnapped during the Hamas terrorist attack more than forty days ago. For Yair Moses and his family, and those of the other hostages, it was six weeks of unbearable waiting. Thousands of them walked so that we would not forget…
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