ADAM HARVEY: Sydney.ADAM HARVEY: The families of the missing make themselves heard.PROTESTER: What would you do if we were telling you 18 days, you don’t know if that loved one is alive, dead, getting fed.YONATAN ZEIGEN: This is my job now. I hold meetings with people about the situation, and I go to the campaign of the families. I talk to the press.
We've seen a delay in the ground incursion, the delay keeps getting extended. I see this directly as the result of the influence of the families of hostages.ADAM HARVEY: Omri Almog’s sister and three of her children were taken by Hamas. ADAM HARVEY: Meirav Leshem Gonen is a manager of a group called the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.ADAM HARVEY: Meirav’s daughter Romi was at the Nova trance music festival in the Negev Desert.
MEIRAV LESHEM GONEN: All day long working with people and being supported by them and seeing the professional work and they are doing, they are moving, they are going from room to room, a telephone meetings, you feel action, you feel that things are moving. ADAM HARVEY: Gershon Baskin helped negotiate the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from Hamas in 2011.