Vice President Kamala Harris to meet with families of hostages

Washington — Vice President Kamala Harris is ready to satisfy on Tuesday with households of hostages believed to be held by Hamas for the reason that assault on Israel six months in the past on Oct. 7.

5 Individuals stay unaccounted for and are believed to have been taken hostage by Hamas throughout the assaults, after Israel introduced final month that Itay Chen, a 19-year-old Israeli soldier with twin Israeli-U.S. nationality, was confirmed lifeless. The administration has made clear that it’ll proceed to work for the discharge of all hostages and a direct ceasefire between Israel and Hamas six months after the militant group’s assault on southern Israel on Oct. 7. 

Harris is ready to satisfy with households on Tuesday, after she did so in late October. The households of the hostages met with Nationwide Safety Adviser Jake Sullivan on Monday. 

One of many relations, Rachel Goldberg-Polin, whose 23-year-old son Hersh is being held by Hamas within the Gaza Strip, stated Sunday on “Face the Nation” earlier than a gathering on the White Home that it’s a “failure” of worldwide leaders and governments concerned in hostage negotiations that her son and greater than 130 others have been left in captivity for six months. 

“We’re feeling excessive desperation, despair,” she stated. “And we have had fantastic entry and sympathy, and open doorways and plenty of hugs from everybody within the U.S. authorities. However it is a very binary scenario. We wish our folks again, interval.”

Israeli officers stated that round 240 folks had been believed to have been taken hostage amid the Hamas terrorist assault on Oct. 7. Six months later, lower than half of these captured have been returned. Events gathered in Cairo over the weekend to restart negotiations to launch the remaining hostages being held by Hamas.

U.S. and Qatari-led hostage diplomacy started in October, when two twin U.S.-Israeli hostages — a Chicago teenager and her mom — had been launched. Then, throughout a weeklong pause in combating in November, greater than 100 hostages had been launched, together with two U.S. residents, one among whom was solely 4 years outdated. And in late December, the ultimate American lady believed to be among the many hostages, Judi Weinstein Haggai, was confirmed by Israel to have died.