U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson met on Wednesday with families of Israeli and American hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza since their kidnapping on Oct. 7, 2023.

The meeting with the Louisiana Republican took place at his office in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Johnson expressed solidarity with the families and reaffirmed the current Biden and incoming Trump administration’s commitment to securing their loved ones’ release, stressing that we must “take the hostages out from Hamas’s tunnels of death as quickly as possible,” according to a press release from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters.