Tel Aviv, 9 November 2025 (dpa/MIA) - Recently released Israeli hostages made emotional appeals in Tel Aviv on Saturday, calling for the return of the bodies of hostages still in the Gaza Strip.

"It's time to save everyone left behind in Gaza," said Rom Braslavski, one of the 20 hostages who returned to Israel on October 13 as part of a ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

"Even if it takes 20 to 30 years, we'll keep fighting for everyone," Braslavski added.

Thousands of people gathered again in the evening at Hostages Square. According to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, five surviving hostages attended.

One of them, Nimrod Cohen, said he was certain that Hamas knows exactly where the remains of the other hostages are.

"Every day that passes is another day where one of them could disappear forever," Cohen was quoted as saying by the Times of Israel.

When he was held "in hell" in Gaza's tunnels, his captors repeatedly told him "that the people of Israel gave up on us. That nobody is going out to protest and fight for us." But on the day he returned home, he realized that "it was all lies."

The ceasefire agreement reached in October requires Hamas to hand over the remains of 28 killed hostages to Israel. Five of the bodies are still in the Gaza Strip.

Israel has committed to handing over the remains of 15 deceased residents of the Gaza Strip to the local authorities for each body returned by Hamas.

The trigger for the Gaza war was the massacre carried out by Hamas and other terrorists in Israel, during which around 1,200 people were killed on October 7, 2023, and more than 250 people were abducted into the coastal strip.

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