The Times of Israel is liveblogging Saturday’s events as they happen.

Police arrest a 61-year-old demonstrator for suspected incitement at a Tel Aviv protest against the Gaza war.

The protester was detained at Habima Square after she was heard leading a group in chanting: “With our soul and blood, we will redeem you, Gaza.”

Police say she expressed “inflammatory remarks, contrary to the law.”

The officers shut down the demonstration soon after the protesters started to thin out.

Joined by thousands of supporters, the families of Israelis held in Gaza are rallying at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square to call for a deal to free the captives while warning that the planned conquest of Gaza City puts their loved ones’ lives at risk.

Liran Berman, whose brothers Gali and Ziv Berman were abducted by Palestinian terrorists during the October 2023 attack, notes the six captives who were executed by Hamas last year when Israeli forces unknowingly neared their location.

“Expanding the fighting only puts them and all the hostages at even greater risk,” he says. “There is a deal on the table. But deals do not last forever; their windows close fast and hard, as we have seen too many times before. This may be the last chance to save lives and to bring the fallen back.”

Roni Adar, whose brother Tamir Adar was killed fighting Hamas-led terrorists before they captured his remains, says she has been waiting for close to 690 days to bury him.

“In what world should a younger sister spend almost two years begging for the chance to stand at the grave of her older brother?” says Adar.

She adds, “Tamir must come home. Not because he was a hero, not because he was the first to fight, and not because they fought alone against the whole world. Simply because he is, above all, a human being. A man who loved life and loved living. Who loved Israel — both its land and its people.”

At a Tel Aviv protest calling for a hostage-ceasefire deal, the father of Hamas hostage Eitan Horn decries the IDF’s pending operation to take over Gaza City.

“The government doesn’t care about the nation, the hostages… it only cares about its own political survival,” Itzik Horn tells a crowd of thousands gathered under a bridge on Begin Road.

“If, God forbid, the hostages die as a result of this operation, you will not be able to run away from this,” he says, addressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “You will be to blame for the death of my Eitan.”

“I don’t want to receive Eitan in a nylon bag,” he continues.

He calls on protesters to take to the streets, saying “only the people, through public pressure, can save them [the hostages].”

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