Families of hostages issued a statement to the media at the camp they set up in Jerusalem. Einav Zangauker, mother of Matan, said that "Netanyahu has decided to condemn the living hostages to death and make the bodies of the deceased disappear forever. He gave instructions to sacrifice his citizens for a war for Ben Gvir and Smotrich. We will continue to cry out for our children, we will also arrive in the US during his stay there and accompany him wherever he goes." Machbeet Mayer, aunt of Gali and Ziv Berman who are held captive in Gaza, said: "Our struggle is a national and existential struggle. It is a struggle about who we are, about the values in whose name the State of Israel was established. Today we are dismantling our camp and packing it across the sea to New York to the UN."