President Joe Biden on Dec. 13 invited family members of Americans held hostage by Hamas to the White House for the first time since the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel.
The families had a private meeting with the president and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
“It was a terrific, terrific meeting and conversation,” Jonathan Dekel-Chen, father of 35-year-old hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen, told reporters.
He said the families of eight American hostages left with the impression that “we could have no better friend in Washington or in the White House than President Biden himself and his administration.”
Nearly 240 people had been taken hostage by the terrorist group Hamas during its deadly cross-border attack on Israel on Oct. 7….