President Joe Biden responded to the information that Hersh Goldberg-Polin was one of many our bodies that the Israel Protection Forces (IDF) had found in Gaza, and acknowledged “Hamas leaders can pay for these crimes.”
Biden issued a assertion that it was “now confirmed that one of many hostages” killed by Hamas terrorists was Goldberg-Polin. Biden described Goldberg-Polin’s loss of life as “tragic” and “reprehensible.”
“Earlier in the present day, in a tunnel below the town of Rafah, Israeli forces recovered six our bodies of hostages held by Hamas,” Biden stated in a press release. “We’ve got now confirmed that one of many hostages killed by these vicious Hamas terrorists was an American citizen, Hersh Goldberg-Polin.”
Biden added that he was “devasted and outraged.”
“Hersh was among the many innocents brutally attacked whereas attending a music pageant for peace in Israel on October 7,” Biden added. “He misplaced his arm serving to associates and strangers throughout Hamas’ savage bloodbath. He had simply turned 23. He deliberate to journey the world. I’ve gotten to know his dad and mom, Jon and Rachel. They’ve been brave, smart, and steadfast, at the same time as they’ve endured the unimaginable. They’ve been relentless and irrepressible champions of their son and of all of the hostages held in unconscionable situations. I love them and grieve with them extra deeply than phrases can specific.”
“I do know all Individuals tonight can have them of their prayers, simply as Jill and I’ll,” Biden continued. “I’ve labored tirelessly to convey their beloved Hersh safely to them and am heartbroken by the information of his loss of life. It’s as tragic as it’s reprehensible. Make no mistake. Hamas leaders can pay for these crimes. And we are going to maintain working across the clock for a deal to safe the discharge of the remaining hostages.”
As Breitbart Information beforehand reported:
Israel’s Military Radio introduced Sunday morning native time that Goldberg-Polin had been recognized as one of many useless. The instant reason for loss of life had not been recognized. Military Radio additionally introduced that the household of Israeli hostage Orio Danino, 25, who had been kidnapped after saving individuals from the music pageant, had additionally been recognized as one of many useless. So, too, had Eden Yerushalmi, 24, an Israeli girl who had spoken along with her household earlier than being kidnapped.
Hersh was one of many greater than 250 individuals who have been taken hostage after Hamas terrorists launched a land, sea, and air invasion of Israel, leaving 1,200 individuals murdered.
Goldberg-Polin and different individuals who had been attending the Supernova pageant sought shelter in a roadside rocket shelter. Whereas they have been inside, Hamas terrorists have been throwing grenades into the shelter, which resulted within the lack of Goldberg-Polin’s left arm from the elbow down.
Rachel Goldberg-Polin and her husband Jon Polin not too long ago spoke on the Democratic Nationwide Conference (DNC) in Chicago and spoke about the way it was “not a political situation” to name for the hostages to be launched.
Goldberg-Polin was final seen in a video in April launched by Hamas as an try and put stress on the Israeli authorities to conform to an unfavorable hostage deal.
