Michel Illouz, the father of hostage Guy Illouz who was murdered on October 7, said that "on that cursed Saturday we didn't know what to expect. We received a call from Magen David Adom, I ask who the call is from and they tell me it's from my son, and then I hear Guy with his parting command 'Dad, I love you' - he understood what I refused to believe." Illouz added that he is in the square today "in the depths of my soul. I'm here today needing to prove the righteousness of my path. I need to come and beg a contemptible government."