Israel said today it had recovered the body of a hostage kidnapped and killed during Hamas's

October 7th attacks, along with the remains of another hostage it didn't identify.

The announcement was yet another reminder of how the country, even today, lives in the

shadow of October 7th.

Nick Schifrin and producer Carl Bostick in Israel set out to measure the country's

mood 693 days since the war began.

No, not give you, we'll down from Gaza.

In Tel Aviv, at the end of this hot summer of discontent, the heat boils with an angry message.

Save them now.

Israelis call this hostage square, a barometer of the country's hope and despair.

And on stage, Liran Berman issues a challenge. Bring them home and the war.

The hostages are the most important thing, and we need to prioritize their return.

Berman is the big brother to twins Gali and Zeev.

Both kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Aza during the October 7th terrorist attacks.

All of us have the same hobbies. All of us love football or soccer. All of us love music. We have very tight-boned.

But today, nearly 700 days after they were taken, Berman fears his brother's lives hanged by a thread.

We know that they were separated in the first day, and we know that they are surviving.

And I'm terrified as a brother of two live hostages that this current deal will fall again.

The current deal, Hamas says it's willing to release half of the 20 hostages believed to be

still alive and the remaining

ones after 10 weeks in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal. But now Israel is demanding all

the hostages released at once and Hamas's total defeat.

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