Family members of the Gaza hostages, including Einav Zangauker, Ofir Braslavski, and Anat Angrest, arrived at the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem as Operation Gideon's Chariot II began in Gaza City, to protest the move and raise awareness of the potential danger to the hostages, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters announced late Monday night.
Early Tuesday morning, the forum reported that former Gaza hostages Arbel Yehoud and Ilana Gritzwesky joined the collected group of families.
"My only interest," Zangauker can be heard shouting towards the residence in a video posted by the forum to X/Twitter, "is that the country wakes up and brings back my child, along with the 47 other hostages, men and women, living and dead, and that our soldiers all come home."
Preventing further protests
Israel Police on Monday night announced the closure of Aza Street, on which the residence is located, in order to prevent large gatherings and protests from happening.
"While the hostages are surrounded by terrorists and IDF fire, the Prime Minister fled from their family members about two hours ago, surrounded by security guards," the forum wrote in a post to X/Twitter.
"The distance between Gaza City and Aza Street in Jerusalem has never been greater."
The forum noted in a second social media post that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be present at The Jerusalem Post's Diplomatic Conference on Tuesday and that they "will be waiting for him there."
'Our children are there, being used as human shields'
At 6:29 a.m., the symbolic time representing when Hamas terrorists infiltrated the border into Israel on October 7, Angrest gave a statement outside the Prime Minister's Residence, which was later shared in a video on social media.
In the statement, she claimed that "Our children are there, being used as human shields."
"Our loved ones in Gaza are being bombarded by the IDF under the orders of the prime minister," she added, continuing to state her view that Netanyahu decided to send IDF soldiers where their loved ones are located, which means the remaining hostages "might be harmed and not return alive."
"Until the Israeli government lays down a comprehensive deal that declares the end of the war - no additions, no slogans, no sabotage - the end of the war in exchange for the release of the last hostage, we are not moving from here," she added.