For 10 months, the families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas have led protests, blanketed local and international media and begged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree a deal that would bring their loved ones home — even if it meant ending the war against Hamas.
So far, they have failed. But on Sunday, as news spread that six more hostages had been found dead in a tunnel underneath Gaza, apparently recently executed by their Hamas captors less than a kilometre from Israeli troops, a new wave of public anger swept Israel. Much of it was directed at Netanyahu.
By Sunday night tens of thousands of Israelis were streaming through Tel Aviv streets, demanding that Netanyahu compromise and accept a deal which could see the hostages released in exchange for a lasting ceasefire and the freeing of thousands of Palestinian prisoners.