The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said on Friday that the security cabinet's decision to prepare for the conquest of Gaza City is, in effect, "a death sentence for the living hostages – and a sentence of disappearance for the fallen hostages."

Families fear hostages are at risk from major military gamble

Eshel Gat, a resident of the southern Israeli Kibbutz Be'eri near the Gaza border, lost his wife, daughter and nearly his entire family in the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023.