 next we check in on the situation with the israeli hostages who have been held by hamas for the past 10 months since they were seized on october the 7th on thursday jonathan deckel chen father of the israeli american hostage saggy deckel chen was part of a delegation of hostage families with u.s citizenship who traveled to the u.s to meet both president biden and israel's prime minister netanyahu jonathan spoke to our sister program news hour just before that meeting