Father of Israeli-American hostage pleads for deal 'with Satan' before Biden, Harris enter Situation Room

The father of an Israeli-American hostage still being held by Hamas demanded a "negotiated agreement with Satan" soon, as President Biden and Vice President Harris head into the Situation Room with the U.S. negotiating team.

"It is absolutely clear, the only way to get hostages home alive is by some kind of negotiated agreement with Satan," Jonathan Dekel-Chen, whose son Sagui is still being held in Gaza following Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, said in an interview with "Fox & Friends" Monday morning. "Keeping in mind that all of Israel’s military and intelligence, senior command have been saying for weeks if not months the fighting needs to stop in order to get the hostages back, as many as possible alive, but all of the 101 hostages remaining."

There are seven U.S. citizens still being held by Hamas as hostages, including four believed to be still alive, and three whose murders have already been confirmed, Dekel-Chen noted.

"As far as messaging to the Israeli government, my government, it’s that the time is over for selling, perpetuating this fantasy of total victory over Hamas based on the sacrifice of our sons, daughters, grandparents who are hostages in Gaza," Dekel-Chen said. "We’ve been at this for 11 months, hearing from our government that a little more military pressure and a little more military pressure is going to cause Hamas to come begging for an agreement in exchange for our hostages. Clearly, that has not happened. Six bodies were returned yesterday of hostages who were alive until this past week. A week before that, six other hostages were returned after their murder, months and months after [Oct. 7]."

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