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Saturday, October 11, 2025
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Saturday, October 11, 2025
‘We did it, thanks to you’: Hostage families call on Israelis to join them for tonight’s rally
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Celebrations at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv as negotiators reach a deal to secure the release of all hostages from Gaza. October 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
The Hostage and Missing Families Forum calls on the Israeli public to join them for tonight’s rally in Tel Aviv ahead of the expected release of their loved ones.
“Come join us in Hostages Square at 8:15 p.m. tonight,” the forum says. “We did it, thanks to you.”
In accordance with the first phase of the newly signed ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, the terror group is set to free the remaining 48 hostages — some 20 living, at least 26 thought to be dead — by Monday.
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