It's been a year of intolerable, engulfing fear, loathing and anxiety for Israel's Oct. 7 hostage families. The Bergers are one of these.

Nearly a year ago, these four Americans were among hundreds of hostages taken into the Gaza Strip. As the months have passed, their families have clung to glimpses of their loved ones, fragments of hope in an ocean of fear. Keith Siegel, a grandfather born in California, was last seen in a video released by Hamas in April, gaunt and weeping.