White House: Biden met with released Hamas hostage Avigail Idan, 4, earlier today

US President Joe Biden met earlier today with 4-year-old Israeli-American Avigail Idan, who was released in a hostage deal brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the US in November, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says.

“It was also a reminder that there are still Americans and others being held hostage by Hamas, and we’re working day in and day out to ensure all of them also are able to get safely home to their loved ones,” says Sullivan at a White House press conference.

“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,” he adds.

Both of Avigail’s parents were murdered by terrorists who infiltrated Kibbutz Kfar Aza during Hamas’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel. She was taken captive while hiding in her neighbor’s home.

Commenting on the video Hamas released earlier today of another Israeli-American hostage, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Sullivan says, “This is an innocent young man being held hostage by a terrorist organization and he should be released immediately without condition and without delay.”