A demonstrator holds a sign referencing US President Donald Trump during an anti-government protest organised by the families of the Israeli captives. AFP
At least 92 Palestinians were killed on Saturday in Israeli strikes across Gaza, 45 of them in Gaza City, according to the territory's civil defence agency.
"The only thing that can stop the slide into the abyss is a full, comprehensive agreement that ends the war and brings all the hostages and the soldiers home," said Lishay Miran-Lavi, wife of Omri Miran, who remains captive in Gaza.
Directly addressing Trump, she urged, "Use your influence with Prime Minister Netanyahu.
"Prolonging this war only puts Omri and the other hostages in even greater danger," she said.
Netanyahu and Trump are scheduled to meet at the White House on Monday.
On Friday, Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly that Israel would "finish the job" in Gaza, even as Trump expressed optimism about a ceasefire.
"It's looking like we have a deal on Gaza, I think it's a deal that will get the hostages back, it's going to be a deal that will end the war," Trump told reporters on Thursday.
At the rally in Tel Aviv, Ronen Ohel, whose brother Alon Ohel is among the captives, pressed Netanyahu to agree to a deal.
"No letters, no declarations, no delays. There is an opportunity now, there is a moment when you can choose to be a leader," he said.
But Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir warned Netanyahu against agreeing to a deal.
"Mr Prime Minister, you do not have a mandate to end the war without the complete defeat of Hamas," he posted on X.
Netanyahu's coalition government depends on support from far-right allies like Ben Gvir, who oppose ending the war that killed at least 65,926 Palestinians and destroyed more than 90 precent of of the buildings in Gaza.
This month, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) said Israel is committing "genocide" in Gaza in a bid to "destroy the Palestinians" there.
In August, the United Nations declared that famine in Gaza, the first ever in the Middle East, amid a total Israeli blockade on the entry of humanitarian aid to 2.3 million Palestinians into the strip
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