Secretary of State Antony Blinken embraced survivors of the deadly attacks by Hamas in Israel during his visit to Tel Aviv on Thursday, as the top US diplomat sought to demonstrate the depth of the Biden administration’s commitment in the wake of the massacre.

“We lost a lot of our friends, close friends, lots of family members – there are a lot of people that we know that were kidnapped and are now in Gaza,” Lior Gelbaum told Blinken during his visit to a donation center.

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