Israelis were readying to hold rallies around the country on Saturday night to call for a deal for the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, as negotiations in Doha have stalled and reached an impasse.

At Habima Square in Tel Aviv, the anti-government rally will begin at 7:00 p.m. and will be headlined by activist lawyer Eliad Shraga.

Afterward, a protest led by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum is expected to be held outside the Kirya military headquarters.

Additional demonstrations are planned across the country, including in Jerusalem, where a march will begin at 8:30 p.m. in Zion Square and proceed to a rally at Paris Square, near the prime minister’s official residence.

Earlier Saturday, thousands marched in Kiryat Bialik calling for the release of Matan Angrest, an IDF soldier and resident of the Haifa suburb, who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, 2023, and remains in captivity.

Angrest’s mother, Anat, gave a speech at the march, which has been held in Kiryat Bialik annually for the past 42 years: “This was a moving morning. Seeing thousands of marchers who came to identify and demand his release — strengthens and gives hope. Your support gives us the strength to continue working for his return. We won’t stop praying that he march alongside us here soon,” she said.

On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled the remaining members of Israel’s hostage negotiating team from Doha after recalling the team’s high-ranking members for consultations after a week of “intensive” negotiations.

The announcement followed reports that the renewed ceasefire and hostage deal talks in Qatar, which began last week following the release of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander, had yet to make any progress.

Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding 58 hostages, including 57 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023.

They include the bodies of at least 35 confirmed dead by the IDF, and 20 are believed to be alive. There are grave concerns for the well-being of three others, Israeli officials have said.

Hamas released 30 hostages — 20 Israeli civilians, five soldiers and five Thai nationals — and the bodies of eight slain Israeli captives during a ceasefire between January and March, and one additional hostage, Alexander, in May as a “gesture” to the United States.

The terror group freed 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November 2023, and four hostages were released before that in the early weeks of the war. In exchange, Israel has freed some 2,000 jailed Palestinian terrorists, security prisoners, and Gazan terror suspects detained during the war.

Eight hostages have been rescued from captivity by troops alive, and the bodies of 41 have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the Israeli military as they tried to escape their captors, and the body of a soldier who was killed in 2014.

The body of another soldier killed in 2014, Lt. Hadar Goldin, is still being held by Hamas and is counted among the 58 hostages.