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00:00Central Tel Aviv was packed with tens of thousands of protesters on Saturday
00:05not as many as a week ago after six hostages were found dead in a Gaza tunnel.
00:13Hostage families urged the government to take a deal that would save those held by Hamas
00:19a deal that would also stop the deadly bombing in Gaza and rocket fire on Israel.
00:26Bringing back the hostages should be the number one target, the number one goal
00:34and the fact that it doesn't happen really makes me very, very frustrated.
00:40With 101 hostages left in Gaza, some alive, others dead
00:46families tried to raise awareness to get more vocal public support.
00:51One of them released the audio recording of their son sent by Hamas.
01:04Those calling for a deal feel that yet another opportunity was missed in the past two weeks
01:10despite a general strike, mass protests
01:14and security officials saying the hostages' release could be beneficial on the ground.
01:20I think that instead of going into a regional, some kind of agreement
01:27where everybody can kind of work together and bring these people back home
01:33if anything it's getting only worse by the minute.
01:37With military operations intensifying to the north of Israel
01:41protesters also gathered outside the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem
01:46feel the hope for a deal with Hamas is fading away
01:50and that the government has sealed the fate of the hostages.