Naama Moses, a volunteer selling goods to support the removal forum and missing families, which represents parents of captives, attributed this to the pain that many felt when they saw the three men released last week.
“Maybe containing your disappointment would be easier at home in front of the TV,” said Ms. Moses.
Dr. Hagai Levine, the head of the medical team of the Families Orlevage group, said that if the men released on Saturday were talking and walking alone, he was obvious from the video of their release they needed medical care.
“Now they will have to be examined very carefully,” he said.
Dr. Levine said recently published people have shared “terrible testimonies” on the status of hostages in Gaza.
“Being in captivity for almost 500 days means serious damage to their health,” he said. “They don’t have time, they may not survive in the coming weeks.”
The specter of cease-fire negotiations decomposing alarmed families whose relatives should not be released during the current phase of the ceasefire agreement, which ends at the beginning of next month.
“There are concerns,” said Zexer, whose family welcomed the Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander during his military service in Israel. “We live in a reality show that even the devil could not have conceived.”
Describing the tension and uncertainty between the release of each week, Mr. Zexer said that “the hostages pay the price”.
Viki Cohen, the mother of an Israeli soldier still held in Gaza, said in an interview that the joy of seeing three other released hostages was tempered by anxiety and uncertainty.
“We are on crazy roller coaster,” said Cohen, who recently received evidence that her son Nimrod was still alive. It is not one of the hostages that should be released in the first phase of the ceasefire. “We do everything in our power to come back,” she said.
Even after the Red Cross has dropped with the newly out men, heading towards Israel, the crowd of Square North remained, hoisting images of people still in captivity in a moderate celebration of solidarity.
“It is overwhelming to be here, warmth and love,” said Jennifer Brandeis, who visited such Aviv from Virginia. “To be together – that’s it for me.”
