[IsraelTimes] Family members of hostages and Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine address crowd of 2,000 gathered for Marching and Running for their Lives in Central Park.
The US march and run through Central Park on Sunday morning demanding that the remaining hostages be returned home was the most well-attended of the weekly Sunday events that have occurred since October 7, organizer Shany Granot Lubaton told The Times of Israel.
Speakers included Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine as well as relatives of current and released hostages.
"We are here because Hamas
 ...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
has perpetrated the largest mass kidnapping in modern world history," Levine said in a speech that was half English and half American-accented Hebrew. "From the beginning, this was downplayed by the world community, and it is an outrage.
"We will not forget — we have not forgotten," Levine said to applause and chants of "Bring Them Home Now." "We will be here every single week, as long as it takes, demanding that none of our leaders take their eye off this goal... We are not going to let them look away from this horror."
As the group walked and ran around the Central Park reservoir on the blustery winter morning carrying Israeli flags and posters of hostages’ faces, they were greeted by cheers, applause, nods and even runners and pedestrians who opted to join the march, chanting "Enough Is Enough: Bring Them Home." No counterdemonstrators were present.
"I wish they’d do this every day," marcher Joe Scholz from New York said. "I wish the rest of the American media would keep reporting on this issue, prominently, every day, especially since they’re holding American hostages 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 an 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 ...
as well."
"I’ve been here every week since October 7," Lenna Perlman from New York said, clutching the leashes of her two dogs, Rosie and Rowdy, who were each wearing ’Bring Them Home’ T-shirts of their own. "We may live all over, but we can only do that safely as Jews because of Israel. So I’ll do whatever I can."
Moshe Lavi, brother-in-law of hostage Omri Miran, said he felt today was "very powerful."
"These events allow the families to feel that there is a community behind us," Lavi told the Times of Israel. "Despite the voices of hate, there are voices of love and support."
Lavi recounted recently meeting with officials in Washington, DC, while Omri’s father is in The Hague at the International Court of Justice hearing, in which Israel is accused by South Africa of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip and Omri’s sister spoke at the rally in Tel Aviv.
"We are all doing whatever we can," Lavi said with a sigh. "We are tired. But events are so that public officials — here in the US and in Israel and in the international community — who have deserted us will understand that this is a humanitarian issue that must be resolved.
"This is not a one-time thing," organizer Granot Lubaton told the crowd. "For 13 weeks, we’ve been doing this at 11 a.m. on Sundays, and we will keep doing it at 11 a.m. on Sundays until the very last of them comes home." 
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