Organizers nix Saturday’s weekly Tel Aviv rally for hostages amid escalation in north

26 September 2024, 9:21 am

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In the shadow of the escalating fighting in Lebanon and the targeting of central Israel by Hezbollah, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum cancels Saturday evening’s weekly demonstration calling on the government to do more to release the hostages in Gaza.

The main rally on Tel Aviv’s Begin Road, which has in recent weeks drawn hundreds of thousands, will not be held “due to the security situation and out of care for the masses who were expected to show up,” organizers announce.

The Forum asks the public not to abandon the struggle for the 101 hostages, adding that it will soon issue a call for Israelis to go out with signs and flags to balconies and intersections on Saturday evening, demanding the return of the captives.