2023年10月7日，我的儿子伊泰年仅19岁，他是一名美以混血军人，被派驻在纳哈尔奥兹（Nahal Oz）地区负责边境保卫工作。然而，哈马斯恐怖分子绑架并杀害了他。他们的尸体在加沙地带被扣押了760天——这无疑是对我们家庭的一种蓄意、极其残忍的心理折磨。直到2025年11月，他的遗体才终于被送回家中；他是最后一名被哈马斯杀害的美国平民。
On October 7, 2023, my son Itay was nineteen, an American-Israeli soldier stationed at Nahal Oz protecting the border, when Hamas terrorists kidnapped and murdered him. They held his remains in Gaza for 760 days — deliberate, unimaginable psychological warfare against my family — before he was finally returned home in November 2025, the last American hostage.
他是我亲爱的儿子，也是美国公民。然而，他的祖国大多数人甚至都不知道他的名字，也不知道朱迪·温斯坦（Judy Weinstein）、丹妮尔·沃尔德曼（Danielle Waldman）和卡罗尔·西曼·托夫（Carol Siman Tov）这些人的名字。
He was my son. He was an American. Most of his own country never learned his name, or the names of Judy Weinstein, Danielle Waldman or Carol Siman Tov.
正因如此，美国参议院在里克·斯科特（Rick Scott）和杰基·罗森（Jacky Rosen）两位参议员的推动下，一致通过了一项两党联合决议，以纪念在10月7日战争中被哈马斯杀害的46名美国人。这是美国历史上首次将这些遇难者的名字正式载入参议院的官方记录。该决议再次表明了美国将为这些遇难者的家属寻求法律正义的决心，相关文件将由美国国务卿亲自送达我们每个人手中。
That is why it was so meaningful that the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution, led by Senators Rick Scott and Jacky Rosen, honoring the 46 Americans murdered by Hamas during the October 7 war. For the first time, their names are written into the official record of the United States Senate. The resolution reaffirms America’s commitment to seek legal justice on behalf of our families, and it will be delivered to each of us by the Secretary of State.
华盛顿终于开始正视这一悲剧了。遇难者的家属们即将齐聚美国首都，参加“纪念10月7日哈马斯袭击中的美国受害者”活动；这是美国政府首次在一个场合正式承认这些在战争中丧生的美国公民。我一直倡导这样的纪念活动，因为大多数美国人根本不知道他们的国家曾在9·11事件之后再次经历了如此致命的恐怖袭击。
Washington is finally stopping to remember. Families of the fallen will soon gather in the nation’s capital for "Honoring American Victims of Hamas Since October 7," the first time the U.S. government will formally recognize, in one room, its own citizens killed in the October 7 war. I have advocated for this day because most Americans have no idea their country endured one of the deadliest days of terrorism against its own citizens since September 11.
我的儿子就是那46名被哈马斯杀害的美国人之一。我们迫切需要美国方面展开调查。我衷心感谢国务卿马可·卢比奥（Marco Rubio）主动主持这次纪念活动，也感谢霍华德和艾莉森·卢特尼克基金会（Howard and Allison Lutnick Foundation）的支持。参议院的这一决议向那些悲痛的家属传递了一个重要的信息：华盛顿并没有忘记他们。这些受害者并非“他人战争”中的无辜平民；他们都是美国的儿子、女儿和祖父母，是被极端分子残忍杀害的美国人。
MY SON WAS ONE OF 46 AMERICANS MURDERED BY HAMAS. WE NEED A US INVESTIGATION I am deeply grateful to Secretary of State Marco Rubio for stepping forward to host this memorial, and to the Howard and Allison Lutnick Foundation for their support. Together with the Senate’s vote, it tells grieving families something we have waited three years to hear: Washington sees us. These were not foreign casualties in someone else’s war. They were American sons, daughters and grandparents, murdered by extremists.
但最让我担忧的是：一项决议和一场仪式绝不能沦为“走个过场”的形式，之后华盛顿就继续我行我素。承认并不等于治愈，认可也不等于康复。在摄像机离开现场很久之后，我们的家人仍然需要国家采取行动。因此，我向华盛顿提出三项要求。
But what worries me most is this: a resolution and a ceremony must not become a "check the box" moment, after which Washington moves on. Acknowledgment is not healing. Recognition is not recovery. Our families need their country to act long after the cameras leave the room. So I am asking Washington for three things.
第一，通过《10月7日美国遇难者家属支持与纪念法案》。该法案将为我们这些家属——其中大多数人居住在美国境外——提供与9/11事件家属通过《扎德罗加法案》所获得的相同心理健康支持和医疗康复服务，并授权在华盛顿为遇难者设立永久性纪念设施。没有支持的空洞悲痛，只能由个人独自承受。
First, pass the October 7th American Victims Family Support and Remembrance Act. It would give our families — most of whom live outside the United States — the same mental health support and medical rehabilitation Congress built for 9/11 families through the Zadroga Act, and authorize a permanent memorial to the fallen here in Washington. Grief without support is grief carried alone.
第二，国会必须成立一个正式委员会，调查为何近50名美国公民会在10月7日遇害。这不仅关乎问责，也是我们家属康复过程的一部分。无法解释的事件，就不可能实现真正的康复；三年过去了，我们的家人至今仍不清楚亲人是如何遇害的。班加西事件中有四名美国人丧生，国会进行了八次调查；科巴尔塔楼事件中有19人遇难，众议院也展开了调查。
Second, Congress must establish a formal committee to investigate how nearly 50 of its own citizens came to be killed on October 7. This is not only about accountability — it is part of our families’ recovery. You cannot fully rehabilitate what you cannot explain, and three years later, our families still do not know how their loved ones were killed. Four Americans died in Benghazi and Congress ran eight investigations; nineteen died at Khobar Towers and the House investigated.
国会不能将调查本国公民遇害原因的责任推给以色列政府。它应当向美国人民清晰说明事件经过，这样我们才能真正开始愈合。 第三，将参议院的承诺转化为正义。正如参议员斯科特本周所说，美国“有义务为被谋杀的公民伸张正义”。司法部必须继续追查10月7日事件的所有责任人——包括凶手，以及那些为他们提供资金、武器和便利的人——直到每个人都受到应有的审判。
Congress cannot defer to the Israeli government on understanding how its own citizens were killed. It should give the American people a clear accounting of how this happened, so that we can begin to heal. Third, turn the Senate’s words into justice. As Senator Scott said this week, America "has a duty to secure justice" for its murdered citizens. The Department of Justice must keep pursuing everyone responsible for October 7 — the killers, and those who financed, armed and enabled them — until each one faces justice.
每个恐怖分子都应该明白，杀害美国人将带来严重而持久的后果。这不是复仇，而是威慑，也是防止下一个美国家庭重蹈我家庭悲剧的关键。
Every terrorist should know that killing an American carries severe and lasting consequences. That is not vengeance. It is deterrence, and it is what protects the next American family from becoming mine.
本周，参议院在没有任何反对意见的情况下，展现出了任何一个国家都应当为那些被恐怖分子杀害的公民及其家属所做的责任。我没能救回我的儿子，但我仍然要求我们的国家必须查明事情的真相，采取措施防止类似事件再次发生，追究相关责任人的责任，并确保没有其他美国家庭需要独自面对这样的悲剧。
This week, without a single objection, the Senate showed what any country owes its citizens killed by terrorists, and the families they left behind. I could not save my son. I can still demand that our country tell the truth about how this happened, work to prevent it from happening again, hold those responsible to account, and make sure no other American family has to search for that truth alone.