Breaking: Families of hostages against PM Netanyahu: "Netanyahu is working against a deal. His behaviour regarding the hostages is a crime. We have no choice, but to say: we understand that you're the one who's blocking the deal'. We'll do whatever it takes to try and end your term as PM. This is a new phase in our battle to bring our kids home". Said family members of hostages in a press conference.

"We all saw how his own political domestic interests are making him to take decisions. And how much his concern for his coalition is bigger than his obligation to bring the hostages home". Another wife of a hostage said today in Israel.

After nearly six months of war, hostage families join with anti-government rallies

Tens of thousands of people turned out for mass protests across Israel on Saturday night as the weekly demonstrations in Tel Aviv by the hostages' families took a dramatic turn after speakers called on attendees to "take to the streets" and join the anti-government protesters in the heart of the city, announcing an apparent discontinuation of the separate gathering.

Eli Albag, father of Hamas-held hostage Liri Albag, said there would be no more separate protests at Hostages' Square in front of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

"This is the last Shabbat that we will be here," he said. "We won't meet here anymore, we will be in the streets ... this is the moment where we turn off the lights."

Observers are saying this might be a turning point inside of Israel: