Michelle Steel: “The hostages must be returned.”

“I implore all of my colleagues and my fellow Americans to remember them. We must have absolute moral clarity, and we must have resolved. Hamas must be eliminated. The hostages must be returned. We must stand with the families and victims of this attack, and we must stand with Israel. We owe it to Noah, to Leora, to our ally, Israel.” (01:14–01:18)

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