The families of hostages held in the Gaza Strip launched a 24-hour rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, calling on the government to bring their loved ones home after 100 days in Hamas captivity.

Thousands of people flocked to Tel Aviv’s “Hostage Square” – a central square opposite the Israeli Defense Ministry that served as a meeting point for activists.

Hamas and other Gaza militants captured about 250 people while killing about 1,200 others, most of them civilians, in their deadly attack on southern Israel on October 7.

More than 100 hostages were released during a temporary ceasefire in November, but 132 remain held in Gaza, including the remains of about two dozen who died or were killed.

“We were here on the 50th day and we spoke on this stage. We won’t speak again in 50 days. It’s time to bring them back. Now! Bring them back!” said Ronen Neutra, the father of Omer Neutra, an Israeli soldier who was kidnapped. “They are being held in terrible conditions. They are starving. They die.”

There has been little visible progress toward a new agreement to release hostages. Their families are using the 100-day mark to once again appeal to the government to prioritize bringing the abductees home. Some said the government had not done enough.

Israel said on Saturday it had negotiated a deal with mediator Qatar to deliver urgently needed medicine to the hostages with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross. There were no immediate signs that the deal was being implemented.

Osama Hamdan, an exiled Hamas leader, said in Beirut on Saturday that the group had passed on some of the drugs available in Gaza to hostages.

Near the rally in support of the hostages, anti-government protesters demanding new elections blocked a main street in Tel Aviv, clashing with police who made arrests and tried to push back the crowd. Other protesters marched toward Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in the coastal city of Caesarea, demanding his removal from office.

In Tel Aviv, many demonstrators wanted to stay outside all night. The crowd listened to a recorded message from French President Emmanuel Macron and heard statements from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jacob Lew. Lev and Macron vowed to make every effort to bring the remaining hostages home.

“Today, as we mark 100 days since hundreds of innocent men, women and children were forcibly abducted from Israel, we stand together in calling for their release,” Lew said.

In previous hostage exchanges for Palestinian prisoners, almost all of those released on both sides were women and minors. There are currently 111 men, 19 women and two children still in the Gaza Strip.