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Hostages’ families interrupt Israel parliament to demand their release

Relatives of Israelis held hostage in Gaza interrupted a parliamentary meeting and demanded the government take urgent action to get them released, AFP reports.

The group broke into a meeting of the Knesset’s finance committee, chanting “everybody and now” to urge the return of all hostages.

“You sit here while our children are dying over there,” Gilad Korngold, father of hostage Tal Shoham, yelled, an AFP correspondent reported.

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