More than a hundred hostages are still being held captive by Hamas. Among them

eight Americans including the bodies of three Americans confirm dead and

five believed to still be alive. Israeli-American Keith Siegel was kidnapped from his home in southern Israel during the

Hamas attack on October 7th.

I spoke with his niece, Hannah Siegel, earlier today about the status of hostage negotiations and her

family's relentless work to bring her uncle home. Hannah, welcome to the

news hour. Thank you for being here. Thank you so much for having me. So your

uncle, Keith Siegel, was one of the hostages. Thank you're wearing the number 2008 to represent the number 2008 to represent the number of days that he has now been held.

As a policy, we don't show those videos,

but I just wanted to ask what you thought,

when you saw him, and when you heard his message.

Yeah, it was surreal. I mean, it's the first time that we've seen him or heard his voice in over

2008 days. My aunt Aviva, who is a hostage survivor

and was held and released in November in the ceasefire deal,

they were held together.

And so when she came out, she was able to tell us a little bit about how he's doing but since then

We didn't know if he was alive or how he was I think there was an immense sense of relief just to hear his voice and see his face.

And it's devastating.

I don't know how to describe what it's like to look at a family member in that situation.

He talks, the first thing he says is, I love you and I hope you're okay to our family and he talks

about Passover and he also talks about hearing bombs nearby.

There are so many facets to this and so many ways in which we're worried about him.

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