Brother of hostage Dror Or: Hostages asking us to ‘save them from this hell’

Elad Or, the brother of Dror Or who was taken captive by Hamas from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, is demanding the government reach a hostage deal, in his address to a large crowd of protesters in Jerusalem’s city center.

Or speaks about the propaganda videos that Hamas released this week depicting three hostages who remain alive — Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Keith Siegel, and Omri Miran.

“People are alive,” he says. “They are looking at us, alive, and requesting we save them from this hell.”

Or invokes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the rest of his government, to which the crowd boos and cries “Shame!”

“We won’t give you peace and we won’t let you lose yet another opportunity and continue with this deadly foot-dragging of the past few months,” he says. “We [the hostage families] have no holidays, or happiness or respite.”

Organizers read off the names of the hostages who remain in Hamas captivity, to which the crowd chants, “Back home, now!”

The demonstrators are now dispersing without any clashes with police.