The families of the captives have just held the emergency news conference in Tel Aviv in which they called Israelis to take to the streets to “save Israel from Netanyahu” and secure the release of the people held in Gaza.

Here are some lines from their statement:

• Hamas is regaining its hold in areas previously captured by Israel.
• There is no strategy; the northern parts of the country are on fire, the southern parts are now an active shooting range.

• The evacuees are completely neglected. The disaster is growing. If we continue down this path, we will lose not only the hostages but the country itself.

• Netanyahu is not only the obstacle preventing us from getting our hostages back. He’s also the obstacle preventing the state of Israel from succeeding. In order to save the hostages from Hamas, we must save Israel from Netanyahu.

• Gantz, Eisenkot, Gallant, members of the Likud party, of the coalition who still have a conscience: In order to rescue the hostages who are rotting in Hamas terror tunnels, in order to reach a hostage release deal quickly, in order to end the sabotage and to stop the criminal abandonment of the hostages, we call upon you – bring this government down.

• The government does not care about the hostages, it is leading the entire country towards destruction. Stop cooperating with them, rescue the hostages and save the state of Israel. Come out and tell the public that in order to rescue the hostages we can and must end this war.

• We, the families of the hostages, and the members of the public, must not give up. We will not stop until they are all brought back home.
  Join us and take to the streets.
• There’s no victory and there can be no victory without the return of the hostages. When we all take to the streets together, we will save the hostages and the country.

Source: Al Jazeera