Around 100 actors from the National Theatre in Tel Aviv, sitting on empty beds to mark the absence of those held hostage by Hamas, read stories as they grieve and remember them. "I decided to bring a hundred actors from the National Theatre to cry a story before kids were going to sleep. But tonight, to an empty bed," says Moshe Kepten,artistic director of the National Theatre and organiser of the event. Hamas militants, whose October 7 attack left 1,400 dead in Israel, most of them civilians, saw over 240 hostages taken according to Israeli officials. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES