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The activists are calling on the prime minister to implement the proposed hostage release agreement.
Hostage families staged early-morning demonstrations outside the homes of cabinet ministers Israel Katz, Ron Dermer, Gideon Sa’ar, Eli Cohen, Miri Regev, and Avi Dichter, the Hostage and Missing Families Forum said Sunday.
Demonstrators in support of an immediate hostage deal blocked Highway 1 near Sha’ar Hagai near the entrance to Jerusalem at the same time.
The activists are calling on the prime minister to implement the proposed hostage release agreement. “You and your family are preparing for a lavish wedding, sticking a finger in the eye and a knife in the heart of the hostage families, whom you abandoned and who are wasting away at this very moment, almost 700 days already,” the Hostages Families Forum said.
Cache with tires, flammable material found nearby
Jerusalem District police said that at the Sha’ar Hagai interchange, officers located a cache containing dozens of tires, fabric apparently intended to serve as a fuse for ignition, and two bottles containing flammable material that were hidden among trees nearby where the protests took place.
Police suspicions say that the tires, together with the flammable material, were intended to be ignited on the roadway, and such actions were thwarted by Israel Police.
Police find cache of flammable material found nearby area at Highway 1 near entrance to Jerusalem where demonstrators called for a hostage deal on August 24, 2025. (credit: Canva, Israel Police Spokesperson’s Unit)
Items collected at the scene will be transferred for forensic examination in order to advance the police‘s investigation into the discovery.