The boy's mother is begging the Israeli government to focus on the hostages.
After releasing hundreds of yellow balloons into the Tel Aviv skyline Thursday, dozens of friends, family and strangers sang "Happy Birthday" to Erez Kalderon, lighting candles on a birthday cake that Erez would never get to blow out.
"I can hear him all the time in my mind screaming to me: 'Mom, Mom, come! Save me, mom! Save me!'" she sobbed.Hadas Kalderon's 16-year-old daughter, Sahar, and ex-husband, Ofer Hadas, were also kidnapped with Erez and are believed to be currently held captive in Gaza, too, she said. "I have to work to save my children," she said, continuing, "I don't have time to stop, to process and feel this pain, to process and feel the pain about it all … because I know that without my children, I'm going to break. It will break me. I'm very weak, so I have to fight."Hadas Kalderon and others like her said they are facing an uphill battle against an Israeli government that's stated its first and last goal is to destroy Hamas.
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