SCOOP: American girl kidnapped by Hamas receives hero's welcome from House lawmakers: "This is not partisan"

On October 7th, 2023, Palestinian terrorists murdered the parents of American-Israeli citizen Abigail Mor Edan in front of her eyes, as they rampaged across southern Israel.

The October 7th attacks by Hamas became the deadliest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust. The attack was also the deadliest terrorist attack against American citizens since September 11th, 2001.

Edan, a toddler drenched in her father’s blood, ran to her neighbors’ house, only to be kidnapped by terrorists and held hostage in Gaza for 51 days.

Now 6 years old, Edan received a hero’s welcome on Capitol Hill at an event held in her honor.

The event, hosted by Reps. Ritchie Torres (D., N.Y.) and Mike Lawler (R., N.Y.), saw attendance by legislators from across America, including freshman members and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.).

Pelosi spoke with Edan and her extended family and friends from Israel about their travails.

“This is not partisan,” Pelosi told the Washington Reporter. Torres echoed the need for bipartisanship in his remarks to the Reporter as well.

“Abigail Edan embodies the pure innocence caught in the middle of unimaginable violence on October 7,” Torres told the Reporter.

“I was honored to bring Abigail and her extended family to Capitol Hill to meet with a bipartisan group of my colleagues, so that they could both recount the horrors she endured, but also to demonstrate her perseverance,” the New York Democrat continued. “Abigail reminded us all of the humanity of the hostages and the urgent need to bring every last one home."

Rep. Randy Fine (R., Fla.), who recently won a special election to succeed Mike Waltz, told the Reporter following the event that “Congress needs to make sure the United States never sends another dime to the Muslim demons that did this to her and America needs to support decisive military action to free the rest of the hostages.”

“Bombs away,” he added.

Fine noted that “Abigail Mor Edan symbolizes everything the War on Israel and Jews is about,” he said. “She is an innocent 4-year-old American girl who witnessed the brutal murder of her parents, was held hostage in Gaza by Iranian-backed Muslim terrorists, and used as a human shield by the savages Democrats have bankrolled through bogus ‘aid’ programs and anti-Semitic foreign policy. Honoring her survival — and remembering the children who didn’t make it home — is not just important, it’s necessary.”

Attending the event alongside Torres, Lawler, Fine, and Pelosi were a bipartisan delegation of House lawmakers, including Reps. Susie Lee (D., Nev.), Zoe Lofgren (D., Calif.), Nicole Malliotakis (R., N.Y.), Laura Gillen (D., N.Y.), Eugene Vindman (D., Va.), Brad Schneider (D., Ill.), Grace Meng (D., N.Y.), Sarah McBride (D., Del.), Lois Frankel (D., Fla.), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.), Andrew Clyde (R., Ga.), Mike Levin (D., Calif.), and Pete Aguilar (D., Calif.).