Biden says physique of Israeli-American hostage amongst 6 recovered in Gaza

US President Joe Biden mentioned Saturday that the physique of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was amongst six recovered in Gaza by Israeli forces.

“Earlier at this time, in a tunnel underneath town of Rafah, Israeli forces recovered six our bodies of hostages held by Hamas,” Biden mentioned in an announcement.

“We now have now confirmed that one of many hostages… was an American citizen, Hersh Goldberg-Polin,” the president added.

The 23-year-old was amongst 251 hostages seized throughout the October 7 assault on southern Israel by Palestinian militants.

Round 100 hostages stay in captivity, dozens of whom the Israeli navy says are useless.

The dad and mom of Goldberg-Polin, who was kidnapped from the Supernova music competition, addressed delegates on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago final month.

On Thursday, the couple joined different kinfolk of hostages rallying close to the Gaza border.

“Hersh! It is Mother… I like you, keep sturdy, survive,” Rachel Goldberg-Polin shouted right into a microphone.

Her son had hidden in a bomb shelter with different individuals on October 7 but it surely was surrounded by gunmen, who attacked it with grenades.

A Hamas video from the day confirmed him being loaded onto a pick-up truck with a part of his left arm, which was blown off within the assault, lacking.

He appeared in a proof-of-life video launched by Hamas on April 24 by which he mentioned the captives had been residing “in hell”. His left arm had been amputated under the elbow.

Hamas’s October 7 assault resulted within the deaths of 1,199 individuals, principally civilians, in response to an AFP tally based mostly on Israeli official figures.

Israel’s retaliatory navy marketing campaign has killed a minimum of 40,691 individuals in Gaza, in response to the territory’s well being ministry. The UN rights workplace says a lot of the useless are girls and youngsters.