Hersh Goldberg-Polin: Gaza hostage's mother pleads for ceasefire deal - BBC News

Rachel Goldberg-Polin says "maximum leverage" is needed to free her son Hersh and 132 Hamas captives.

5 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warImage caption, Rachel Goldberg-Polin urged all parties to the conflict to be "courageous" and "put an end to all the suffering"By Anna FosterBBC News, JerusalemThe mother of an Israeli-American man being held in Gaza has told the BBC that Israel and Hamas must urgently agree a new ceasefire and hostage release deal.

Rachel Goldberg-Polin's son Hersh, who turned 23 four days before he was kidnapped from the Nova festival on 7 October, was seen in captivity in a new video released last week.

She described how she felt when she first watched it.

"As soon as I heard his voice I started to cry, because I haven't heard his voice in half a year.

"To see him moving, and to see that he is clearly medically compromised, and that he's fragile. His father Jon and I were both just crying, and I was holding my heart."

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