The father of one Oct. 7 victim wants a congressional inquiry into the massacre

It’s been nearly a thousand days since Hamas murdered more than 2,000 people on October 7th, including 46 Americans. In the six months since his son Itay was returned home for burial, Ruby Chen has been working to heal. But he says there are too many unanswered questions about what happened that day. Chen is in Washington this week asking members of Congress to open an inquiry into the massacre. The Israeli government has not yet established its own State Commission of Inquiry, and many hostage families believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is delaying to avoid political accountability. Chen says Congress should get involved because so many Americans were murdered that day. He points to investigations into to the deaths of Americans in Benghazi in 2012 and the Khobar Towers Bombing in Saudi Arabia in 1996. ------------------------------------- Follow Scripps News on other platforms— Join our newsletter at https://bit.ly/2q1tepr Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scrippsnews/ Follow us on X: https://x.com/scrippsnews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scrippsnews/ Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scrippsnews