The main purpose of the trip is to meet with survivors of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas assault on Israel, including a visit to the site of the music festival in southern Israel that was attacked, said Turkish and Stevens, who is co-chair of the Bipartisan Congressional Hostage Task Force."

So in other words, they got invited there by the occupation government. This is how they typically do these events, show how much they have to "defend" themselves to lay out the groundwork and then establish channels for networking. I'm just surprised they do this for one politician who just ate shit in a primary, normally when i hear about this they invite delegations of at least a dozen MPs.