'We want this war to be over': Israeli hostage families protest in Tel Aviv

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00:01Horror and anguish.

00:03Emotions ran high this Saturday in Tel Aviv's hostage square.

00:07In the last few days, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad released videos of two hostages, Ram

00:12Braslavsky, shown here, and Aviatar David.

00:16They appeared weak and emaciated.

00:19In their current unimaginable condition, they may have only days left to live.

00:26Hamas is using Aviatar in one of the most horrific and calculated campaigns of cruelty imaginable.

00:35Not far away, in front of Israel's defense ministry, protesters came to demand an end

00:40to the country's ongoing conflict to release remaining hostages.

00:44Of those taken during Hamas' attack nearly two years ago, 49 hostages are still being

00:49held by the armed group in Gaza.

00:51Today, we've been seeing Holocaust views from the tunnels of the Hamas in Gaza, the tunnels

00:56of the terrorists, and also the children in Gaza that are suffering at the same time.

01:03We want this war to be over.

01:05The only way to get a ceasefire and a hostage deal is pressure on Netanyahu.

01:11Only pressure on Netanyahu from every direction will end this deal, for the good of the hostages

01:17and for the good of the Israeli state.

01:20Israel considers the disarmament of Hamas to be a precondition for any ceasefire agreement,

01:25which the militant group refuses without the establishment of a Palestinian state.

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