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The Senate has remembered America’s October 7th victims. Now it’s time to heal

This week, without a single objection, the Senate showed what any country owes its citizens killed by terrorists, and the families they left behind

By Ruby Chen Fox News

Published October 3, 2026 10:00am EDT

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Mother of October 7 hostage explains how her new book released her suffering

Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, describes the harrowing moment she cried for her son across the Gaza border on ‘The Story.’

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On October 7, 2023, my son Itay was nineteen, an American-Israeli soldier stationed at Nahal Oz protecting the border, when Hamas terrorists kidnapped and murdered him. They held his remains in Gaza for 760 days — deliberate, unimaginable psychological warfare against my family — before he was finally returned home in November 2025, the last American hostage. He was my son. He was an American. Most of his own country never learned his name, or the names of Judy Weinstein, Danielle Waldman or Carol Siman Tov.

That is why it was so meaningful that the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution, led by Senators Rick Scott and Jacky Rosen, honoring the 46 Americans murdered by Hamas during the October 7........

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