SPECIAL | Dozens of hostages are still being held by Hamas. Their families want them home.
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🗓️ 22 August 2024
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Sagui Dekel-Chen was 200 yards from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7th when a group of Hamas terrorists stormed his home. The hours-long siege claimed the lives of 1200 people and 200 were taken hostage. Sagui was last heard from at 9:30 a.m. that Saturday morning before vanishing into Gaza. Ten months later, cease-fire talks are at an impasse and dozens of hostages are still in Hamas' custody. Jonathan Dekel-Chen and other families of the hostages are at the Democratic National Convention to say to Americans: Don’t forget our loved ones.
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| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the excerpt. I'm |
| 0:14.4 | Fromina Ruizko Iriena, co- managing editor for politics at USA Today. |
| 0:18.9 | Saeeda Co-hen was 200 yards from his home on October 7th when a group of Hamas terrorists stormed |
| 0:25.2 | Kibbutz Nieros. |
| 0:27.0 | All told, the siege went on for hours claiming the lives of 1,200 people and 200 were taken |
| 0:32.2 | hostage. |
| 0:33.4 | Saghi was last heard from that Saturday morning at around 9.30 a.m. |
| 0:38.3 | before vanishing into Gaza. |
| 0:40.5 | Ten months later, and with ceasefire talks at an impasse Jonathan De Kochen, |
| 0:45.0 | Sagi's father and other families of hostages are at the Democratic National |
| 0:49.4 | Convention to say to Americans, don't forget our loved ones. |
| 0:53.2 | Jonathan, thank you for being here. |
| 0:55.2 | Thank you for having you. |
| 0:56.8 | Can you tell me a little bit about your son? |
| 0:59.8 | Well, my son is a 36-year-old now, father of three little girls. |
| 1:04.6 | He, his birthday, it was about two weeks ago. |
| 1:08.4 | On October 7th, as you said, he was about 200 yards |
| 1:11.6 | from his home on the kibbut pursuing one of his great loves, |
| 1:16.2 | which is refurbishing old buses and to usable objects. |
| 1:20.4 | This time he was refurbishing four old airport buses into mobile technological |
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