'Women Demand Life' Protesters Rally in Tel Aviv for October 7 Commission of Inquiry

The Women Demand Life movement held a demonstration in Tel Aviv on Sunday morning, August 9, 2026, calling for a state commission of inquiry into the security and government failures of October 7. The gathering honored the six hostages murdered by Hamas captors in August 2024 — Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Ori Danino — two days after Goldberg-Polin's second yahrzeit was marked in Jerusalem. Demonstrators held cutouts of the hostages' faces and a large banner reading 'We won't forget, they could have returned alive.' The protest is the latest in a sustained series of accountability actions by bereaved and hostage families as the government continues to resist establishing a state commission ahead of the October 27, 2026 election.