Six weeks of anguish, five days of marching, has brought the families of those taken to Gaza from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, joined by thousands of supporters, demanding Israel's Prime Minister meets them.

It should have not have required a march of 80 kilometers with people suffering and family suffering, only in order to get a meeting with a Prime Minister.

Among the crowd, Shelley Schemtov, whose 21-year-old son, Omer, was taken by Hamas at the music festival near Gaza that day.

It's 43 days of nightmare. We don't sleep, we don't eat. I don't know what about my son, if he's eating, if they are giving him food, if they are beating him. I don't know nothing. It's nightmare.

Is this helping coming here, marching here?

Very much. It's a power. I don't know if you see all the people, they are giving us power.

They were here with a message for the Israeli government. Moran Mena, whose grandmother is being held, says it should have only one mission in Gaza.

The message is that there will be no victory. We already lost. We have 240 people in Gaza. We need to bring them all back and this is our victory.

In a moment of haunting poignancy, they released balloons, one for every hostage missing.

Israel is a very small country. Everybody seems to know somebody who was affected by the events of October the seventh, directly or indirectly, whether they were killed or wounded or taken hostage, there was a very somber feeling to this march, a real sense of sadness and deep pain, but also a determination that voices are heard both inside the Israeli government and far beyond.

The march that ended up outside his office only adds to the pressure on Israel's belligat leader.

Our Prime Minister doesn't belong here. Sorry. He lost his credit long ago, and what happened in the past year is horrible. And it led to these events. No, I'm sorry, Mr. Netanyahu should.

Go home. By the end of the day, a rally in Tel Aviv to keep up pressure on the Prime Minister that he seems to be bowing to Benjamin Netanyahu has finally agreed he will meet the hostage families along with his war cabinets on Monday. Dominic Waghorne, Skye News, Jerusalem.