After a night in Kiryat Gat, hostage families set out on second leg of march to Jerusalem

The families of hostages held in the Gaza Strip have set off on the second leg of their four-day march from Kibbutz Re’im to Jerusalem.

The marchers set out yesterday from the site of the Supernova festival massacre and, after stopping for a ceremony at the Sderot police station, spent the night in Kiryat Gat.

Today, the procession will proceed to Beit Gvurin before continuing to Beit Shemesh, where they will hold a ceremony before settling in for the night.

At the outset of the second day of marching, Rubi Chen, the father of abducted soldier Itai Chen, briefly addresses the crowd about the importance of unity in the face of the tragedy of October 7.

“We know that the soldiers are the consensus of the State of Israel. Among the soldiers and the hostages, there are Jews, there are Bedouins, there are Haredim, religious and secular Jews, there people from the north and from the south,” he says.