Relatives of Israeli hostages held in Gaza took to the streets for a third day, urging the government to accept a new deal with Hamas before it was too late.

Gaza's Health Ministry said the Palestinian death toll from the war had climbed to 62,004, with another 156,230 people wounded

US-based activist says demonstrations demanding Netanyahu resign and hostages’ release misdirect anger at Israel instead of Hamas, harming the cause.

“ Israel ’s media blackout strategy, designed to conceal the crimes committed by its army ... in the besieged and starving Palestinian enclave, must be stopped immediately,” said Thibaut Bruttin, the director general of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which defends journalists and press freedom worldwide.

Maayan Sherman, mother of the killed hostage Ron Sherman, calls for an immediate ceasefire and hostage deal in a speech to a rally on Tel Aviv’s Begin Road for the release of the captives held by Hamas. “I’m here as a bereaved mother and aunt, to save other mothers from the same fate,” she says.