Ilana Gritzewsky has told demonstrators in Tel Aviv that Netanyahu’s government is choosing “to turn its back” on the remaining Israelis held by Hamas in Gaza, “instead of stopping everything and bringing them home”, Al Jazeera reports.

“How can this be? How can a state founded in the wake of the Holocaust forget its sons and daughters who are being held in holocaust conditions?” she asked.

Gritzewsky and her partner, Matan Zangauker, were taken by Hamas from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz during the October 7, 2023, assault. She was among those released during a weeklong Gaza truce in November, while Zangauker remains in captivity.

She also recalled that during her captivity, she was hurt “physically, emotionally, psychologically, sexually — until I reached the depth of fear and humiliation”.