For over 600 days, families across America and Israel have lived with a gnawing ache, their loved ones held captive in Gaza’s shadows by Hamas terrorists after the attack at the Nova music festival that started the Israel-Hamas War. Think of a young man, barely out of his teens, or a parent torn from their children, enduring unimaginable horrors from a group that has no claims to the Jewish homeland.
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Their stories weigh heavily on our hearts and our minds. Yet, at a White House dinner Friday night, President Donald Trump delivered a beacon of hope: ten more hostages will be coming home “very shortly.”
The announcement came amid a celebration of Republican achievements, from slashing wasteful spending to securing our borders. He did this after just signing the GENIUS Act for Bitcoin regulation. But it was Trump’s focus on the hostages that cut through the noise. “Gaza