Hundreds of people marched near Kibbutz Urim in the south near Gaza to raise awareness for over 100 men, women and children held by terror groups in the Strip since October 7.

Marching under the banner “Let my people go” ahead of the upcoming Passover holiday, the demonstrators held cards with numbers representing 189 days the hostages have been held captive, along with photos of the abductees.

In photos shared by activists, the demonstrators can be seen wearing hessian sacks to represent Jewish slavery before the exodus from Egypt, which is celebrated on the Passover holiday, and yellow sashes to represent the hostages.

The march ended at Eshkol Park, about 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) away from Urim.

“The fact that we are standing here, half a year after October 7, and the hostages are not home yet, is a terrible failure on the part of the State of Israel,” Einav Moses, daughter-in-law of hostage Gadi Moses, told those gathered.

“I call on the prime minister, and I say: No more. We are going into the holiday of freedom, and we cannot celebrate when 133 Israeli citizens are being denied basic human rights,” she said.

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum also held a Passover-themed event on Thursday in Kibbutz Nir Oz.

Survivors of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Kibbutz Nir Oz gathered Thursday morning in the kibbutz dining hall, which was set up for a mock Passover seder — now with dozens of kibbutz members gone.

They shared stories of their lost and missing loved ones and called on the state to bring the hostages home.

One hundred and twenty-nine of 253 hostages taken on October 7 remain in captivity in Gaza — not all of them alive.

The war erupted when thousands of Hamas terrorists poured across the border with Israel in a mass assault on October 7 during which they killed almost 1.200 people and abducted 253.

Israel responded with a military offensive to destroy Hamas and free the hostages, half of whom remain in captivity in Gaza.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 33,000 people have been killed in the fighting, an unverified figure that includes some 13,000 Hamas gunmen Israel says it has killed in battle. The IDF says it killed 1,000 Hamas and other terrorists inside Israel on and immediately after October 7.