00:00Thousands of people marched through the streets of Jerusalem wearing labels with the number
00:04300 on them.
00:06The march was organized by Rachel and John Goldberg-Polen, whose 23-year-old son, Hirsch,
00:12was among those kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival October 7th.
00:16They have worked tirelessly for his release.
00:19Today is day 27, Hirsch is still not home.
00:23Today is day 30.
00:25Today is day 58.
00:27Day 300.
00:28Racheli Frankel, whose 16-year-old son, Naftali, was kidnapped and killed by Hamas, explains
00:34why she and others are marching.
00:36To be together, to express the fact that we're never forgetting.
00:41We go to sleep with this at night, we wake up with this in the morning.
00:43Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is working to bring the hostages home.
00:48But hostage families, and more recently some in his military establishment, have accused
00:54him of acting slowly and adding new conditions for a deal with Hamas on a gradual ceasefire
01:00that would free the hostages.
01:03Our long hand strikes in the Gaza Strip, in Yemen, in Beirut, and wherever necessary.
01:11This hand of ours reaches out when the time comes for peace to those who want to establish
01:17peace with us.
01:21In Gaza, the death toll is rising, with the Hamas-run health ministry saying nearly 40,000
01:27Palestinians have been killed in close to 10 months of fighting.
01:31Palestinian officials warn of a growing health crisis and are calling on the world to intervene.
01:37This catastrophe is the result of the spread of urgent diseases, of infectious diseases,
01:43whether through water or breathing.
01:45There are more than 100,000 cases of hepatitis, noting that in the year preceding the aggression
01:51there were only 85 cases across the Gaza Strip.
01:56Palestinian officials say hospitals have stopped functioning and are in urgent need of equipment.
02:03We need large quantities of beds, medicines, and medical supplies, as what has been sent
02:09is not enough to meet the hospital's needs.
02:12More than 90 percent of Gaza's two million people have been displaced at least once and
02:16are spending the sweltering heat of the summer in tents with no air conditioning and few
02:21sanitation facilities.
02:23The fighting is showing no signs of letting up, and people on both sides see no hope for
02:28an end anytime soon.
02:30Linda Gradstein, VOA News, Jerusalem.
