Some 500 people gather on Tel Aviv's Hostages Square demanding deal to release remaining captives all at once

Some 500 people gather on Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square for Hostage Families Forum’s weekly rally demanding a deal to release the remaining captives all at once.

On Begin Road, a block away, a similar-sized protest also calls for a hostage deal and accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of thwarting negotiations.

“Netanyahu don’t forget, history won’t forgive,” they chant.

Protesters gather outside IDF headquarters on Begin Road in Tel Aviv, calling for the government to close a deal to free hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, November 2, 2024. (Yoav Loeff/Pro-Democracy Movement)

Bolstering the Begin Road rally are organizations opposed to the government’s judicial overhaul, including Darkenu, the Movement for Quality Government, and the reservist protest group Brothers in Arms, as well as a column of left-wing activists who marched over from an earlier anti-war protest on Habima Square.