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McCollum stands with hostage families who ‘demand’ ceasefire in Gaza

The Minnesota representative said “the remaining hostages must come home alive, and the unbearable conflict in Gaza must end.”

Betty McCollum
Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) Credit: U.S. House of Representatives Official Portrait.
Betty McCollum
Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) Credit: U.S. House of Representatives Portrait.

Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) mentioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement mourning the murder of six hostages by Hamas in Gaza this past weekend.

“Hamas’s murder of Israeli-American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five other Israeli hostages is devastating,” she said on Wednesday. “My heart goes out to their families.”

McCollum, who is one of the strongest critics of Israeli policy in Congress, said that she stands “with families demanding that the Netanyahu government reach a hostage release and ceasefire agreement immediately. The remaining hostages must come home alive, and the unbearable conflict in Gaza must end.”

Netanyahu said on Thursday that “while we agreed in May, in July and in August to a deal, an American proposal, Hamas has consistently said no to every one of them. They don’t agree to anything.”

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