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Source: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/senate-remembered-americas-october-7th-victims-time-heal
U.S. Senate Remembers America's Oct. 7 Victims
(Fox News) Ruby Chen - On Oct. 7, 2023, my son Itay was 19, 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. 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 Oct. 7 war. The resolution reaffirms America's commitment to seek legal justice on behalf of our families. Families of the fallen will soon gather in the nation's capital for Honoring American Victims of Hamas since October 7, the first time the U.S. government will formally recognize its own citizens killed in the war. I have advocated for this day because most Americans have no idea their country endured one of the deadliest days of terrorism against its own citizens since Sept. 11. Together with the Senate vote, this tells grieving families something we have waited three years to hear: Washington sees us. These were not foreign casualties in someone else's war. They were American sons, daughters and grandparents, murdered by extremists.