As Israel-Gaza war rages, friends and relatives fight to keep spotlight on hostages
- Israel presses on with military offensive as families fret over fate of hostages in Gaza
- Israel says that nearly 240 hostages were seized by Hamas militants on October 7
Five weeks after the Hamas attacks, the families and friends of Israelis taken hostage by the militant group are doing everything to ward off public fatigue and keep attention on their plight.
Hadas Kalderon’s daughter Sahar, 16, son Erez, 12, and ex-husband Ofer, 53, are among those believed to have been taken by Hamas to Gaza on October 7.
She has had to describe her nightmare “a hundred times”, she said.
The most recent occasion came in Tel Aviv on Saturday on the sidelines of another protest calling for the release of all the nearly 240 hostages missing since the attack, which also killed around 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials.
“I suffer! I try not to think about it and all the time I have to talk about it,” said 56-year-old Kalderon.