Families of hostages pitch tents outside PM’s residence, vow to remain until he ‘agrees to a deal’

Family members of Hamas hostages, accompanied by protesters, pitch tents on the sidewalk of Azza Street outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private home in Jerusalem after staging a protest demanding the government strike an immediate hostage deal.

The demonstration takes place on the backdrop of a proposed plan by the US, Egypt and Qatar to end the ongoing war and arrange the return of the hostages held in Hamas captivity.

According to a spokesman from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, the demonstrators will remain in their tents until “the prime minister agrees to a deal to return the hostages.”

Alongside the tents hang signs and posters calling for the hostages’ release. One in the center of the set-up reads: “We love our children more than we hate Hamas.”