[IsraelTimes] Anti-government, pro-hostage deal protesters set up camp to spend the night outside the IDF’s Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv, as part of what some hostages’ families call “Operation Kirya Cordon.”
ONE night?
The largest encampment is outside the base’s main eastern entrance, on Begin Road. Smaller encampments are set up outside two entrances on Kaplan Street, on the base’s south side, and outside an entrance on Shaul Hamelech Street, on the north side, just across from Hostages Square.
The weekly Begin Road protest, which usually disperses at about 10 p.m., is still going strong, with protesters gathered around a bonfire on the road chanting: “The cabinet’s responsible for the life of the hostages.”
Earlier, the protesters were addressed by Jimmy Miller, cousin of slain hostage Shiri Silberman Bibas, and Jon Polin, father of slain hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
Silberman Bibas’s body was returned to Israel last month along with those of her young sons Ariel, 4, and Kfir, nine months, as part of the ceasefire deal with Hamas. Her husband, and the boys’ father, Yarden Bibas, was returned to Israel alive on February 1.
Speaking through a megaphone to dozens… of supporters, Miller says Yarden’s wish and only comfort is that “hostages will keep coming back alive.” 
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