In a moving ceremony, the families of the abductees and missing unveiled the new name of the museum plaza in Tel Aviv: "Square of the Abducted and Missing," after which hundreds of balloons were launched into the air as a symbol of freedom.
Near the UN offices in New York: Demonstrators with photos of the abductees // Credit: Udi Moses, Happiness Studies Academy
The name change is intended to remind the entire State of Israel that days pass, time passes, but no one in Israel or the world must forget for a moment the babies, children, elderly, women, men, wounded and sick whose holding them captive by Hamas constitutes a crime against humanity – every day.
Before the unveiling, Nofar, Yagev Buchstev's sister, and Shani Segal, Rimon Kirscht's cousin, said: "Yagev and his wife Rimon have been held by Hamas for over two weeks. And for two weeks every day we hear more and more messages about friends who are missing or no more, travel every day to a different funeral and just hug each other wordlessly because there is no need, the eyes already say everything. So many loved ones are gone, but Yagev and Rimon are still alive, they and 220 other people, whom we must return, we have no right to give them up and leave them there."
"I hope that soon we will come here to knock down the sign because it will no longer be needed," the father of one of the abductees concluded painfully
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