The families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza are trapped in limbo, two days before the second prisoner exchange of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, with many having relatives both on the list to be freed and those who aren’t, AFP reports.

Among them is Silvia Cunio, an Argentine-Israeli from the Nir Oz kibbutz community. She has two sons in captivity, one of whom was taken along with his partner Arbel Yehud. She is on the list — but the Cunio brothers, David and Ariel, are not.

“I came here to say that I continue to fight for my children … to demand that they stop the war and don’t stop fighting for my children”, she said, wearing a T-shirt with their image on it.

Cunio presented herself as an untrammelled optimist, saying that her sons “will come back in good health. That is my hope and it is what keeps me going”.

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