Holding pictures of the hostages and missing relatives the demonstrators waved Israeli flags and chanted "We won't give up, we demand the hostages' release!"

"We don't have time, we don't have one hour more, we don't know if she is alive," said Adriana Adri talking about her elderly mother in law who was taken with Adri's 63-year old husband.

The captives - ranging from babies to grandparents - are believed to be held in by Hamas militants in tunnels deep under the Gaza Strip which the Israeli army has been pounding daily since October 7.