Barak Oz, the cousin of hostage Bar Kuperstien, delivered remarks in a special statement at the Hostages Square in Tel Aviv marking 600 days since the war, calling for his release. "600 days have passed and our lives are really not the same anymore," he began. He recalled the story of Bar's father, who was injured in a severe accident and is working to rehabilitate himself for his son: "How can you take a child away from such a father? How have you still not brought Bar home? Look at this person. Bar could have escaped from the party, but he chose his own path, he chose to save people instead of himself."