Masses rally for hostage deal in Jerusalem

In Israel, tens of thousands of people rallied in Jerusalem on Sunday to demand the immediate return of 133 hostages held in Gaza as Israel marked six months since the Hamas terror group’s onslaught in southern Israel. According to The Times of Isral report,an  estimated 50,000 participants demonstrated outside the Knesset(Parliament).According to organizers from a group representing the families of hostages, thousands more people gathered for rallies with relatives of captives in cities across the West, including New York, Berlin, London and Washington D.C.
Freed hostages, relatives of those still in Hamas captivity and parents of slain soldiers all spoke at the Sunday night demonstration in Jerusalem. Crowds thronging Jerusalem’s Kaplan Street carried signs with photos of those kidnapped by Hamas and wearing the iconic yellow ribbon symbolic of the hostages’ plight, in front of a Knesset lit up in yellow in their honor.Many in the crowd demanded an immediate hostage deal, chanting: “There is nothing more important, every hostage has to return.”  During the demonstration, large sections of the crowd repeatedly broke into chants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,