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our family is totally broken, not a second in the day we are not thinking about edan. we are doing everything we can and meeting with all the government in u.s. and israel. we are traveling a lot and doing whatever we can to free edan and 100 hostages still in gaza. >> brian: what else could the g government be doing? >> we have access on highest level of government and we are grateful. it was result in november, we don't see movement since then. diplomacy never works until it works. it should work this time really fast. >> brian: has american government been informing you or israeli government? >> i think it is both. both. we with communicating more with u u.s. government because we live here. we resign in new jersey. we feel like israeli government should do more and we wish to see same amount of dedication to this issue as u.s. government. >> brian: how do you get your head around protest we're seeing in new york city in support of hamas at time like this. did you think you would see this in your life? >> never. this is very difficult to see. i cannot see footage fr

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coming up one year later israeli hostages are still not home up next i'll speak with the family of edan alexander on what they want to see happen on this somber day. stay with us for that coming up blitzer denied it six points. cnn, you'll find him in cities, towns in suburbs all across america. >> millions of americans who have medicare and medicaid, but maybe missing benefits they could really use extra benefits. they may be eligible to receive at no extra cost and if you have medicare and medicaid, you may be able to get extra benefits to through a humana medicare advantage dual eligible special needs plan call now to see if you qualify with the humana medicare advantage dual eligible special needs plan, you could have dr. hospital and prescription drug coverage in one can the union plan plus most plans include the humana healthy options allowance to help pay for essentials, like eligible groceries, utilities, rent, and more. your allowance is conveniently loaded onto a prepaid card each month. and whatever you don't spend gets carried over to the next month. plus, you could get othe

also gathered at the site of the music festival, where hundreds were killed october 7th. 28 year old edan stevens was taken from the festival after nearly a year of trying to secure his safe return, his family learned sunday he had actually been killed in the attack and hamas had taken his body. >>>>i feel that my heart is broken and after one year of struggling, i cannot understand what's going on and i can't understand that he's not here. >>>>israel has been waging war in gaza against hamas since the attack tens of thousands of palestinians have been killed, including many civilians millions have been displaced. israel's leaders have vowed to continue fighting until hamas is destroyed. but a year later, the group targeted the tel aviv area with rockets. here in the u.s., there are a number of events around the country in memory of the victims of october 7th, as well as protests calling for an end to the fighting. president biden and first lady jill biden took part in a candle lighting ceremony, remembering all those killed and taken that day. >>>>no justice, no >>>>peace. while in bosto

one of the hostages taken that day was abigail edan, who was just three years old last october.aided her home and killed her parents. they then took abigail to gaza, and held her hostage for 51 days, until she was released in a prisoner swap deal. her great—aunt, liz naftali, pushed for her release — shejoins me now. liz, thank you for speaking to us today. first of all, how is little abigail?— little abigail? abigail is ok, thank you — little abigail? abigail is ok, thank you for _ little abigail? abigail is ok, thank you for asking - - little abigail? abigail is ok, thank you for asking - and i thank you for asking — and thank you for asking — and thank you for having me. she's a beautiful little girl, she's four years old — she turned four years old — she turned fourin four years old — she turned four in captivity. and you know, she lives with the fact that she saw her mother and father being murdered by hamas terrorists in front of her one year ago. terrorists in front of her one yearago. she terrorists in front of her one year ago. she lives with her aunt and year ago. she

edan alexander rather omer neutra keith samuel siegel. and in addition, hamas continues to hold the bodies of hostages itai fan gadi hagi guy and judith weinstein haggai, whom they killed. i hope they all get home soon. we turn now to congressman jim himes, democrat of connecticut, and ranking member on the house select committee on intelligence. congressman good to see you. what does the killing of yahya sinwar mean for the region? how will it potential change israel's actions in gaza and everything else in the war you know, it obviously satisfies in every decent soul the yearning for justice for such a monster who visited such a horrible, horrible thing on the state of israel on october 7, and more than that, of course, i think while there have been any number of obstacles to a negotiated solution, a ceasefire for release of hostage hostages. there was probably nobody higher on that list. and yahya sinwar. so it opens the possibility that maybe hamas will say they can get anybody they've decimated us, that hezbollah will say the israeli

the rally was led by the family of edan alexander, a hostage with ties to new jersey who still remains in captivity. alexander is the son of israeli parents. he was serving in the israeli army near gaza when the hamas attack occurred. his mother is calling on the united states to do everything in its power to bring the hostages home. >> as a mother, i cannot describe the pain of not knowing where your child is or how easy my family and i are heartbroken, but we will never stop fighting for his return. >> protests are expected to take place across new york city in the coming days. >> still ahead, former president trump and vice president harris crisscrossed the country as we head into the homestretch in the race for the white house. >> and oakland mayor sheng tao joins her supporters for a rally. why? they say the city needs to stay he course and reject don't mind me. i'm just the flu. i'm quite harmless, really. and when people ask, “but aren't you linked to dangerous flu complications like pneumonia, heart attack, and hospitalizations?” i just say, “but i'm just the flu.” (sniffs.) it

on april 24th, president biden hosted abigail edan, a 4-year-old girl who was held hostage by hamas forh and shot and killed her mother and father in front of her. her older sibling, aged #1k36 10, had locked themselves inside a cub board upstairs and hid for 14 hours. abigail's father had been shot while shielding abigail, who crawled out from under his body and went to a neighbor's house. later that day, hamas took her hostage with that family of five. now abigail crawled around the resolute desk playing with her sister and brother in the oval office. the three children were now living with their aunt and uncle in tel-aviv. biden gave the family a tour out on the white house lawn brett was pushing 4-year-old abigail on a swing.

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. >> reporter: is today we heard from the family of edan alexander, born in israel but i grew up in newsey. shortly after greating from high school, instead of going straight to college, he decided to to serve with the israel defense forces. his family says he was at a small outpost on the gaza board when hamas militanted began to attack, and he was -- militants began to attack, and he was taken hostage. >> there are seven americans still being held including my son. the u.s. government must use all its influence and power to bring them home. israel and the international community have the strength the make this happen, but we need action and we need it now. >> reporter: and and this morning's rally comes on the heels of several protests. we've seen earlier here in this city from israelis and supporters of israel. we just had the united nations here in the big apple last week, and and we saw similar protests with people calling on diplomats to prioritize the hostage release. and now we know that israel moved into a new phase of the war fight on two fronts in gaza and in lebanon. the top

that was hersh, and there are four americans still alive in captivity in gaza, keith, sagi, edan andr. this is why the united states has been backing israel over the last year. as i said, with respect to the war in gaza, there's a view that the idf has achieved a lot of objectives and it may be time to get those -- it is time, i should say, to get those hostages home and conclude a deal. israel is actually under fire from four different directions, not just from gaza, but also from hezbollah and lebanon, from the west bank, and from iran as we saw last tuesday, and so the united states has been standing with, despite its differences with the bibi government, it has been standing with the government of israel. of course, this isn't israel's war of choice. the war could end tomorrow if iran, if hamas, hezbollah decided they did not want to attack israel or the united states. >> yeah, you know, talking to omer's parents, understandable level of frustration, they want leadership. and a year of war has strained the u.s./israel relationship, and i want to play some of what vice president h

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