{"id":2229357,"date":"2024-04-24T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T20:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-meets-with-4-year-old-american-hostage-released-by-hamas-last-year\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T16:17:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T20:17:35","slug":"biden-meets-with-4-year-old-american-hostage-released-by-hamas-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-meets-with-4-year-old-american-hostage-released-by-hamas-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden reunites with 4-year-old American hostage freed by Hamas in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-meets-with-4-year-old-american-hostage-released-by-hamas-last-year%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2229357&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe\u200d Biden met with Abigail Edan, a 4-year-old American hostage \u200creleased by Hamas following a\u2063 ceasefire last year.\u2063 Tragically, Edan&#8217;s parents were\u200c killed in the same attack. The Biden administration remains actively involved\u200d in negotiations to secure the release of other\u2063 hostages held by Hamas. President Joe Biden recently met with Abigail \u200dEdan, a \u20634-year-old American hostage freed by Hamas last year after a ceasefire. Sadly, Edan&#8217;s parents were victims of the\u2064 same attack. The Biden administration is committed to ongoing efforts to secure the release of other hostages held by Hamas.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> met Wednesday with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2441213\/4-year-old-abigail-edan-among-hostages-released-by-hamas-on-third-day-of-ceasefire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Abigail Edan\">Abigail Edan<\/a>, an American toddler abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, and released in the first round of hostage exchanges between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Israel\">Israel<\/a> and the terrorist group last year.<\/p>\n<p>Both of Edan\u2019s parents were killed in the Oct. 7 attacks, and she was the youngest American citizen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-public-schools-reaches-tentative-reopening-deal-with-teachers-union-students-may-return-this-week\/\" title=\"Chicago Public Schools Reaches \u2018Tentative\u2019 Reopening Deal With Teachers Union, Students May Return This Week\">held hostage<\/a> by Hamas. She turned 4 just days before being released in late November.<\/p>\n<p>National security adviser Jake Sullivan announced the previously unscheduled meeting at the top of Wednesday\u2019s White House press briefing. The Biden administration has continued to take part in negotiations to procure the release of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/haitian-gang-releases-remaining-missionaries-held-hostage-for-months\/\" title=\"Haitian gang releases remaining missionaries held hostage for months\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/haitian-gang-releases-remaining-12-kidnapped-american-missionaries\/\" title=\"Haitian Gang Releases Remaining 12 Kidnapped American Missionaries\">remaining hostages<\/a> held<\/a> by Hamas, yet plans for an extended ceasefire broke down earlier this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan claimed the meeting was a reminder of the work left to do to free the remaining hostages.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Hamas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/2977912\/israeli-american-hostage-hamas-propaganda-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>released footage<\/a> of 23-year-old Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli American among the American citizens still held in Hamas captivity, marking the first proof of life provided by Hamas of any of the remaining American hostages. The video shows that Goldberg-Polin\u2019s left arm had been amputated.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials said they had seen the video, and Sullivan told reporters Wednesday that he does not know why Hamas has now produced the video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an innocent, young man being held hostage by a terrorist organization, and he should be released immediately, without conditioning, without delay,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to speak further on this, because of the sensitivity of the issue, other than to say I was just sitting with the President of the United States, going through all of the Americans being held hostage and what we can do about them, what their status is. It\u2019s something he\u2019s personally very focused on, even as he celebrates Abigail\u2019s release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s briefing can be seen in full below.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p data-video_id=\"ngoU20HJYH4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ngoU20HJYH4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden reunited with Abigail Edan, an American toddler kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. Freed in a hostage exchange, she tragically lost both parents in the attack. Edan, the youngest American hostage, symbolizes the cruelty of terrorism and the resilience of the human spirit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2229358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24115624006597.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24115624006597.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2229358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}