Families of abductees gather in front of the Kirya in Tel Aviv following the disaster of three people killed publicly during a hostage retrieval operation.
Biden, Blinken and Jon Finer, the deputy national security adviser, met with 13 family members while another three phoned in. Together, they are related to eight hostages abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7
Hamas took the oxygen device of 77-year-old hostage Margalit Moses.
Sahar Baruch stayed behind in a burning shelter to try and save his brother before being kidnapped, according to family members.
Troufanov has worked as an engineer in Amazon’s AWS cloud division and although he has been held in captivity for almost two months, Amazon has remained silent on the matter.
Two Bedouin siblings were released from Hamas captivity on Thursday.
The competition was largely centered around "the missing player."
The minister said that while it was a good thing that some of the women and children would be returning home, Israel had a moral duty to ensure the return of all the hostages.
This is a fundamental building block of Israeli solidarity. And solidarity is critical for the resilience and unity in a crisis that allows the country to flourish and thrive.