[IsraelTimes] Relatives of the hostages seized by Gazook terror groups on October 7, 2023, rallied earlier today with supporters in London, demanding their release and criticizing the UK government’s decision to potentially recognize a Paleostinian state next month.
Organizers Stop the Hate UK and several Jewish organizations say the march and rally at Downing Street was in part aimed at urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer to prioritize the release of the remaining hostages.
Out of 251 hostages captured during Hamas
 ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
-led invasion, 49 are still being held in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
, along with the body of an Israeli soldier who was killed in Gaza in 2014. Of those still captive, 20 are believed to still be alive.
The rally comes after Starmer announced on July 30 that the UK will formally recognize the State of Paleostine in September, unless Israel takes various "substantive steps," including agreeing to a ceasefire in Gaza.
The UK leader also detailed several demands for Hamas, including releasing all the hostages, but has not said that that is a precondition for the UK recognition step.
Noga Guttman, the cousin of 24-year-old hostage Evyatar David, was among the hundreds to attend Sunday’s London event, according to organizers.
Hamas released a video last week in which David, emaciated, was shown digging what he feared would become his own grave, sparking worldwide revulsion.
Organizers say other attendees included the relatives of Avinatan Or, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival with his girlfriend Noa Argamani.
Argamani was rescued by Israeli forces last June.
The UK’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis also took part in the march.
The rally, which featured speeches by various relatives of some of the 251 hostages, was endorsed by almost all denominations of Judaism represented in the UK, including the Modern Orthodox United Synagogue, the Sephardi community, Reform Judaism, Liberal Judaism, and Masorti Judaism.
"The situation for the hostages is absolutely desperate," a spokesperson for the Campaign Against Antisemitism, one of the groups attending, says.
"People from right across the Jewish community, from every denomination, are uniting with us to say that the UK must focus all of its diplomatic pressure on securing the return of the hostages." 
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