Jerry Nadler: “I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, on October 7, the State of Israel was treacherously attacked by the…”

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, on October 7, the State of Israel was treacherously attacked by the terrorist group Hamas. They murdered 1,200 peaceful people, many of them at a musical festival, some from Kibbutz Nir Oz near the border. They kidnapped 250 people illegally, of course, and took them into Gaza. We know that some of them have been released in a deal that was made, one of them was an American Israeli named Abigail, just 4 years old. She was kept together with three other hostages and was given one piece of pita, Middle East bread, for the four of them per day. When they came home, they had to be deloused. Their hair and their clothes were full of lice, and they said that if they had to go to the bathroom, they had to wait 2 hours. Mr. Speaker, Hamas has said over and over again, they will attack over and over again, again and again until Israel is no more. When people demand a cease-fire, we should think what we would have thought about people demanding a cease-fire 7 or 8 weeks after Pearl Harbor. A cease-fire would simply permit Hamas to regroup and to attack Israel again and again and again, which they have told us they would do. By the way, there had been cease-fires. There have been four cease- fires, every one of which Hamas broke, including breaking a cease-fire on October 7. One of the hostages who was taken was a fellow named Danny Elgarat, brother of Yitzchak Elgarat. I want to read what Danny said about that.…”