 Protesters gather to walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the March for Humanity organized by the Palestine Action Group, in Sydney, Australia, August 3, 2025. Photo: AAP/Dean Lewins via REUTERS |
The marchers also demanded the Australian government to act to pressure Israel. Former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr, several MPs and Sydney Mayor Clover Moore joined the march in Sydney.
 A protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, on August 2, 2025, calls for the immediate release of hostages held in Gaza since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and calls for an end to the war. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad |
On Saturday, hundreds of people gathered at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, to protest the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip. The protest erupted after two armed groups, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, released video showing Israeli hostages looking emaciated and sick from lack of food. Families of hostages warned that the escalating fighting in Gaza is threatening the lives of their loved ones.
Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, declared that the army will continue to fight relentlessly if no hostage exchange agreement is reached.