The Biden administration is unaware of the status of 10 unaccounted-for Americans who disappeared after Hamas launched terrorist attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday.
During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” moderator Kristen Welker asked Blinken if he believed the 10 missing Americans were being held hostage.
“We don’t know. As you said, we’ve got 10 unaccounted-for Americans. We believe that some significant number are hostages,” Blinken said. “But, you know, what’s happening is — and it just underscores the horror — Israel continues to discover, uncover people who were killed, who were slaughtered — and I use that term very advisedly — slaughtered on October 7.”
He added, “So what we don’t know for sure is whether some of the unaccounted for are dead and have simply not been uncovered yet, or whether they’re hostage. But we have a pretty strong idea that some number of the 10 at least are…
