WASHINGTON — A month after Hamas terrorists killed more than 1,400 people and took hundreds more hostage in a brutal terrorist attack on Israel, families of the missing pleaded for help Tuesday during the Republican House’s weekly news conference. House of Representatives, where Republican leaders also criticized President Biden’s calls for Israel to stop its offensive.
Doris Liber, a U.S. citizen, told the story of her son, Guy Iluz, who has been missing since attending the Oct. 7 Nova music festival, where Hamas massacred more than 260 revelers.
“I’m here because 30 days have passed; “Every day is like an eternity for me and I can’t wait any longer because I know he was shot,” she said through tears. “We don’t know anything, we don’t have a list of the hostages, we don’t know their condition. “I have nothing, so I need your help.”
Liber, who was born in Queens but now lives in Israel, said the past month was full of “mind games” as he heard that his son was taken hostage and killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza.
“Nobody knows anything. We don’t know if they killed him; Only the next day it became known that there were hostages,” he said. “I was waiting to get a message that he was identified, but we didn’t get it. Lucky me.”
“I am very proud to be an American and also an Israeli,” she added. “But I need you now because nothing helps me anymore. I pray, which I didn’t do before, but… but please help me.”
Doris Liber spoke at a House Republican news conference about her son Guy, who was kidnapped by Hamas at the music festival he was attending in Israel during the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks. Getty Images Liber said her family has been suffering from “mind games.” ” as they have heard conflicting reports claiming that Guy was killed or taken hostage. Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images Liber and her family asked Congress to help recover the Hamas hostages. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Liber’s plea came as the Biden administration continues to pressure Israel to take “humanitarian pauses” in its ground attack on Gaza. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that his country would not suspend operations without “the return of our hostages.”
State Department and White House officials say such pauses are necessary to secure the release of hostages and get humanitarian aid to the territory, a move that House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R -La.), criticized on Tuesday.
“This is not the time to talk about ceasefires or pauses,” Scalise told reporters. “Hamas renounced that [Oct.] 7, when they entered villages and massacred people, when they attacked music festivals (peaceful music festivals), shooting people down and taking more hostages, including American citizens.”
Liber with Israelwerke Schweiz director Christina Bumbacher at a demonstration calling for the release of the hostages in Geneva, Switzerland, on October 22, 2023.Photo by GABRIEL MONNET/AFP via Getty Images
“The State of Israel has the right to exist and defend its people, and Israel is completely justified in its mission to eradicate Hamas once and for all.”
Scalise spoke three days after pro-Palestinian protests broke out in the nation’s capital, with tens of thousands of people marching on the National Mall to call on the United States to stop aid to Israel out of concern for civilian casualties in Gaza.
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But House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said Tuesday that “there can be no moral ambiguity” about the conflict.
A Hamas terrorist holds a child hostage in a video released after the attack. Hamas online Hamas terrorists with a kidnapped Israeli woman in a truck in Khan Yunis on October 7, 2023. AFP via Getty Images
“Posters of innocent victims have been torn down, American universities [are] “They failed to protect their Jewish students from intimidation, harassment and violence, and just yesterday, an elderly Jewish man in Los Angeles was beaten to death by a pro-Palestinian protester,” he said. “Hear this loud and clear: House Republicans stand with these families.” [of hostages] next to us.”
“We will do everything in our power to ensure that Israel has the resources to return every last hostage of these Hamas terrorists to their family,” he added.
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), who helped evacuate more than 200 Americans from Israel last month, said Biden has “emboldened adversaries like the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hamas and left our key allies vulnerable in their current positions.” .”
A blood-stained bed in a house in Kibbutz Nir Oz after the Hamas attack.REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
“The bottom line is that Joe Biden has demonstrated time and time again that he is not prioritizing the well-being of the American people at home or abroad,” he said. “We must not forget about those who are still stranded, including the innocent hostages that Hamas, the Iranian-backed terrorist organization, still has under its control.
“It’s been more than a month since Hamas terrorists took innocent American hostages,” he added, “and we still have no resolution or plan or strategy from the administration.”
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