Rachel Goldberg-Polin believes son Hersh’s ill appearance will remind the world that the hostages are real people and raise pressure for a deal.
Rachel Goldberg-Polin thinks it would be helpful for the world to see the latest Hamas propaganda video, which features her son, Hersh, The Telegraph reported Tuesday.
“People have forgotten that [the hostages] are actual, real people,” she told the British daily in an interview.
In the nearly two-and-a-half-minute clip, an emaciated and pale Goldberg-Polin is seen sitting in a chair in a short-sleeved shirt which reveals that his left arm ends in a stump right below the elbow.
According to eyewitnesses, his hand had been blown off by one of several hand grenades tossed by Hamas terrorists into a small shelter where he and dozens of fellow music lovers had hidden at the Supernova dance festival when it was overrun by the marauding men in the early morning invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023.
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