The parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin have made a fresh plea at the Democratic National Convention for him to be returned home.
The parents of 23-year-old American Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who Hamas kidnapped in its Oct. 7 attack in Israel, have made a plea for their son’s safe return at the Democratic National Convention (DNC).
Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, murdering 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and taking another 250 people hostage, including Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was attending the music festival Tribe of Nova to celebrate his birthday at the time.
On Aug. 21 at the DNC, his parents Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg said the war has produced a “surplus of agony” for everyone involved and that “there are no winners” in what has become a “competition of pain.”
“In an inflamed Middle East, we know the one thing that can most immediately release pressure and bring calm to the entire region: a deal that brings this diverse group of 109 hostages home and ends the suffering of the innocent civilians in Gaza,” Polin said.
In the 320 days since their son was taken into captivity, Polin and Goldberg said, it’s like they “live on another planet.”
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