By Athena Papakosta

Families of Hamas hostages have begun a five-day march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding that the country’s leadership do all it can to bring them back.

His mother, just 21 years old, Omer, Shelley Shem Tov, trembling with rage she choked back her tears and raised her voice saying “we can’t take it anymore. We ask Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for answers.” He was standing in the middle of a square in Tel Aviv which has now been renamed Hostage Square. As long as she spoke every word was a punch in the stomach.

“I don’t know if he’s eating or if he’s seeing the sun or if he’s being beaten,” she said, describing how her son suffers from asthma and remains without his breathing apparatus. “I don’t know if you know what it’s like when you can’t breathe”…

Yuval Haran with seven of his relatives in the hands of Hamas speaking to the British newspaper “The Guardian” explains that their purpose with this march is to listen to those who make the decisions.

“We will go to Jerusalem where those in power are, where the prime minister and the cabinet of Israel are, where the Knesset is and we will ask to meet with them. We will ask to be told why our families are not home yet.”

Haran’s father, Absalom, 66, and his uncles, Lila Kipnis and Eviatar Kipnis, were killed in Kibbutz Beri. His mother, Shoshan, 67, his sister, Addi Shosam with her husband, Tal and their children, Nave, eight, and Yachel, three, were abducted along with his aunt and her 12-year-old daughter.

At the same time, on the other side of the Atlantic, the president of United StatesJoe Biden, emphasized that he participates in daily meetings on the subject of negotiations for the release of hostages from Hamas.

When he was even asked by journalists what his message is to the abductees, he said “take courage. We are coming”.

Washington is sending to the Middle East the competent adviser of the American president, Joe Biden, who will visit Israel, the West Bank, Qatar and Saudi Arabia for talks.

As has been known so far from the White House in Israel, Mr. Brett McGurk he will meet with Mr. Netanyahu, with Israel’s Defense Minister, Yoav Galand, and with the heads of the country’s intelligence and security services.

For his part, the representative of the Islamic Palestinian organization, Osama Hamdan, addressed from Beirut to the relatives of the hostages, stressing that Hamas wants “your children to return to you” but, adding that “the one who prevents it is the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu” accusing him of “prolonging the war for personal reasons”.

However, Islamic Jihad is threatening to hold its own hostages, regardless of what Hamas does. In more detail, as the head of Ziad Al Nahala explained in a written statement on Tuesday afternoon, “the method of negotiations may lead Islamic Jihad not to participate in any agreement” adding that “it may hold them until there are better conditions » for her.

Back in Israel, however, the families of the hostages holding the photos of their loved ones shout achshav which means now.

After all, 37 days of indescribable agony have already passed since the morning of October 7 and their patience is running out.

They want answers and hope their nightmare will end before they reach Jerusalem on foot this Saturday.