Six months to the day after the bloody Hamas attack, thousands of Israelis gathered in Jerusalem to demand the release of the hostages. Agam Goldstein, 17, a hostage released during the week-long truce between Israel and Hamas at the end of November, took the stage to be "the voice" of those still in captivity.

Ofri Bibas, whose brother Yarden, sister-in-law Shiri and their two children Ariel, four years old, and Kfir, one year old, are among the hostages, spoke asking that “we not forget them”