Families of Americans Taken Hostage by Hamas Plead With Israel, Biden for More Information

The frustrated families of several Americans missing in Israel spoke from Tel Aviv on Tuesday, asking the government there for more information and pushing the U.S. to take more action to secure the return of hostages being held in Gaza.

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, one of the people who spoke to reporters Tuesday, lives on a kibbutz. His missing son, Sagui Dekel-Chen, 35, is a father of two with another baby on the way and is believed to be held hostage in Gaza.

Dekel-Chen said out of their community of 400, only 160 are known to have survived. The rest are dead, missing or prisoners.

“It is no more," Dekel-Chen said of the kibbutz.

Rubi Chen’s son Itay is also missing in Israel. The joint Israeli and American citizen joined the army a year ago.

He says the family last heard from his son was Saturday morning when he reported they were under attack.

He is considered missing in action.

Chen is asking the Biden administration to do what they can to get him home.

"On the side of the U.S. embassy, we've been in contact with the State Department and U.S. embassy... but there's been no formal concentrated attempt to talk to us as a group and talk to us about what they are doing in this matter," said Chen.

"Give us a legit request from a representative of the State Department to sit with us, update us what they have been doing, what they're planning to do, and able to support us."

When asked if they have heard from U.S. officials, Nahar Neta, whose mother Adrienne Neta is believed to have been taken by Hamas terrorists said, “I want to be blunt when answering this question.  Zero communication.”

Neta was on the phone with his mother during the invasion but said she was calm as gunfire was heard outside of her shelter.

It was 9:45 a.m. on Saturday when terrorists burst into her home.  There was screaming and that was their last contact with her.

“It is our hope, which is a little bit ridiculous at this stage, to say the optimistic scenario here is that she is held hostage in Gaza and not dead on the street.”

Hamas fighters are believed to be holding as many as 150 people hostage in Gaza. It is unclear how many are U.S. citizens.