{"id":143105,"date":"2023-10-26T04:10:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T04:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/?p=143105"},"modified":"2023-10-26T04:10:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T04:10:04","slug":"horrifying-footage-shows-israeli-american-hersh-goldberg-polin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/world-news\/horrifying-footage-shows-israeli-american-hersh-goldberg-polin\/","title":{"rendered":"Horrifying footage shows Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Horrifying footage shows Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin after Hamas terrorist blew off his arm and then bundled him into the back of a truck &#8211; as heartbroken dad says &#8216;we have no proof of life&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The parents of the 23-year-old Israeli-American young man remain laser focused on getting their son back home\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>New footage from the morning of the Hamas attack shows Hersh, with his left arm blown off, being loaded into the bed of a pickup truck\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They say they are fighting to maintain the hope that he is alive in Gaza, but struggle to keep negative thoughts at bay\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Horrifying footage has come to light of kidnapped Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin being loaded into the bed of a pickup truck moments after Hamas terrorists blew off his left arm.<\/p>\n<p>At gunpoint, Goldberg-Polin and several other young men were piled into the back of a vehicle. They are shown pulling themselves into the truck, including Hersh, who conducted himself calmly despite his calamitous injury.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Hersh&#8217;s father, Jon Polin, said he and his wife &#8216;have no proof of life&#8217; for their son. For the time being, the Israeli government still lists the young man as &#8216;a hostage, as taken by Hamas.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Goldberg-Polin&#8217;s bloody left limb was seen protruding as he hoisted himself into the truck at around 9am on Saturday October 7 at the Tribe of Nova music festival in southern Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The footage, initially uncovered by Anderson Cooper&#8217;s team at CNN, showed several Palestinian terrorists dragging three other young men into the truck with Goldberg-Polin, the last of whom was thrown on top of the three injured men.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=5QqFweh3CC4%3Frel%3D0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/25\/20\/76998893-12672047-image-m-7_1698261203716.jpg\" height=\"647\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Hersh and several other young men were loaded, at gunpoint, into the bed of a Hamas pickup truck. Blood coated each of their bodies<\/p>\n<p>Cooper confirmed with the parents of the missing young man that the footage was in fact of Goldberg-Polin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As horrible as it is as a parent to [see] your kid under gunpoint, with one arm \u2026 the composure with which he\u2019s walking on his own legs, pulling himself with his one weak hand onto the truck, gave me a real dose of strength,&#8217; said Jon Polin, Hersh&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n<p>The young man&#8217;s mother, Rachel Goldberg, said she believed her son&#8217;s calm demeanor was &#8216;from shock.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>More than two weeks after their son was taken along with at least 200 other hostages, his parents remain determined to bring their son home.<\/p>\n<p>The couple flew to Manhattan this week to speak with the United Nations about bringing their son, and the other hostages home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I personally feel like we have to keep running to the end of the Earth to save him,&#8217; his mother told Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And we have to try to go [on] believing that somehow he got treatment and \u2026 he\u2019s alive and he\u2019s there,&#8217; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The couple said they have moments of doubt, where thoughts creep in like wondering if he &#8216;bled out on that truck.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Maybe he died yesterday, maybe he died five minutes ago,&#8217; said Goldberg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We don&#8217;t know if once he was loaded into that pickup truck at 9:00 in the morning on October 7, if he was tossed off the truck after 30 seconds or if he made it into Gaza where his phone was last pinged. We don&#8217;t know his status, but officially he&#8217;s still listed as \u2018kidnapped,\u2019&#8217; Polin said in a separate interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/25\/20\/76998967-12672047-image-a-8_1698261357940.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Goldberg (right) described their current emotional predicament as like being &#8216;on the head of a pin.&#8217; &#8216;Every direction you fall is a bad direction. So we&#8217;re just trying to balance on the head of a pin,&#8217; she said<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/25\/19\/76303735-12672047-Hersh_Golberg_Polin_23_texted_his_mother_and_father_I_love_you_I-a-36_1698259993355.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Hersh Golberg-Polin, 23, texted his mother and father &#8216;I love you. I\u2019m sorry&#8217; at 8.11am on October 7 &#8211; as Palestinian militants declared war on Israel, took dozens of people as hostage and killed hundreds during the Jewish high holiday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/25\/20\/76998891-12672047-image-m-9_1698261358312.jpg\" height=\"794\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In the horrifying footage, Hersh is seen climbing into the bed of a Hamas pickup truck moments after his left arm was blown off<\/p>\n<p>The couple have repeatedly called on international leaders to advocate for their son and the other hostages.<\/p>\n<p>In the US, &#8216;the support is there,&#8217; said Polin. &#8216;But we want more, we want action.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are hostages from somewhere around 30 countries. Why have we not yet seen \u2026 global leaders screaming to get the wounded help?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg described their current emotional predicament as like being &#8216;on the head of a pin.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Every direction you fall is a bad direction. So we&#8217;re just trying to balance on the head of a pin,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on Fox, Polin said that his current goal is to convince the world that the hostage situation in Gaza is a &#8216;global humanitarian catastrophe, and the whole world and foreign ministers everywhere should be screaming to get these people out and don&#8217;t politicize them.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>On the morning of October 7, Goldberg-Polin sent a text message to his mother and father that read: &#8216;I love you, I&#8217;m sorry.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Born in\u00a0Berkeley, California, Hersh and his family moved to Jerusalem when he was just eight-years-old. He had been at the Tribe of Nova music festival celebrating the end of his Israeli Army service.<\/p>\n<p>Until April, he had been a tank driver in the\u00a07th Armored Brigade and trained to become a medic.<\/p>\n<p>His father, Jonathan, and mother, Rachel, said their son had been working as a waiter and was saving up money to fund a trip to India, which was his lifelong dream.<\/p>\n<p>Now, his mother says that she and the rest of Hersh&#8217;s family are remaining hopeful that he will come home to them and take the trip to India &#8216;with one hand.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12672047\/footage-american-israeli-Hersh-Goldberg-Polin-Hamas-terrorist.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horrifying footage shows Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin after Hamas terrorist blew off his arm and then bundled him into the back&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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