Thousands of Israelis took to the streets in Israeli cities on Saturday to demonstrate for the release of the hostages held by the militant Palestinian organization Hamas and against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Saturday’s rally by hostage families in the centre of Tel Aviv was marked by International Women’s Day a day earlier. Relatives of female hostages and victims of Hamas violence and a young woman who was released in November addressed the rally. A few hundred metres away, several thousand people demonstrated against Netanyahu’s government. Near the headquarters o…