Marking 100th day, Biden says US will ‘never stop working’ to bring hostages home

US President Joe Biden says on the 100th day since October 7 that America is still working to bring home the “more than 100 innocent people, including as many as six Americans, who are still held being hostage by Hamas in Gaza.”

In a statement marking the somber anniversary, Biden says that “their families have lived in agony,” and at the same time, they have been “at the forefront of my mind as my national security team and I have worked non-stop to try to secure their freedom.”

Biden says his administration has “pursued aggressive diplomacy to bring the hostages home,” lauding the deal in late November under which more than 100 hostages were freed.

“I will never forget the grief and the suffering I have heard in my meetings with the families of the American hostages,” he adds. “No one should have to endure even one day of what they have gone through, much less 100. On this terrible day, I again reaffirm my pledge to all the hostages and their families — we are with you. We will never stop working to bring Americans home.”