Israeli actress Gal Gadot embraces hostage families at Tel Aviv square, meeting with wives and mothers of those abducted during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.

Large crowds of Israelis took to the streets on Sunday, launching a nationwide grassroots strike and widespread protests to demand the government secure the release of 50 hostages still in Gaza.

The emotional images of Jews being ripped from their homes by Israeli soldiers galvanized Israel’s far-right and settler movements.

Families of hostages held in Gaza are stepping up their campaign to secure their release by holding a strike across Israel.

Israelis took to the streets on Sunday to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to expand operations in the Gaza Strip rather than attempt to negotiate an end to the war under which Hamas would free its last hostages.

The human rights group says that starvation is ‘part and parcel of Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza’.

The Prime Minister’s Office has authorized Indonesia to airdrop humanitarian aid into Gaza next week, despite the lack of diplomatic relations.

Israeli military advances plans to take over the northern city and forcibly displace more than a million Palestinians.