00:00 Families of individuals held captive in Gaza for 68 days gathered in front of Israel's
00:06 parliament in Jerusalem, forming a human chain while urging immediate action from the Israeli
00:12 government and the international community to secure the release of their loved ones.
00:17 It's the 68th day I'm here on the streets, out abroad, telling the world and explaining
00:26 the world why innocent civilians shouldn't be taken out of their beds at 6 in the morning
00:31 on Saturday morning and it's been horrible.
00:36 With the slogan "Time is running out," family members expressed their demands to the government.
00:42 We came to Jerusalem to remind our government that there is no time left and that every
00:49 day that passes by might be the last day of the hostages while they're alive and to demand
01:00 an exchange and a release, a wide deal of all the hostages now before it's too late
01:07 because every day we hear about new names and new hostages that came there alive and
01:13 now they're taken out as bodies.
01:15 Reuters reports that despite a week-long truce between Israel and Hamas in the previous month
01:21 leading to the release of 105 captives, concerns persist as 19 individuals out of the remaining
01:28 135 in Gaza captivity were declared dead in absentia by Israel on December 12.
01:35 This announcement followed the recovery of the bodies of two hostages by Israeli forces.
01:40 (upbeat music)
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