Family of American hostage reacts to seeing son in Hamas video
In an interview, Rachel and Jon Goldberg-Polin spoke about what it was like to see their son Hersh in a video released by Hamas, the first proof of life they had seen in more than 200 days since the Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel. NBC News' Raf Sanchez reports.
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#IsraelHamasWar #Hostage #American
I could not imagine the pain of having to see your loved one get tortured and not having any control to stop it. Absolute respect and sympathy towards the parents being optimistic through this devastating experience.
yep think about the thousands of Palestinians, including hundreds of children, who have been held in israeli torture dungeons without charges for years and decades
Too bad Israel baited October 7th as strategy
@@FreeGumFighter Don't cast your pearls before swine. The lines are clearly drawn now @yabol36... is finitely shallow & fallacious at best
Last thing you want to do to a traumatized child is to hand them over to someone that will traumatize them even more🤦🏾♂️
You said “hand” 😂😂😂😂😂
well stop supporting hamas in america and maybe then the hostages can come home.
You were born backwards*
Do you Trust bibi government
How about stopping the support of the zionists by American govt and by the western governments in general. The audacity people like you have is pathetic. No other word.
It sickens me to see all these American university students protesting when they are so obviously misinformed as to who is at fault in this tragic event. My heart weeps for this family all those families who were instantly destroyed on October 7th.
This is not just a physical war but a spiritual one as well.
Hamas and Israel are both slaughtering women and children and you think thats spiritual. It sounds closer to a demonic act than anything else.
Christ to the J..s John 8:44 "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
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Only with this administration 🤦🏼♀️
Isreali soldier with double citizenship Israel/US. Way to leave out key details
What’s your point?
Pipe down Islamist. The way you justify hatred is insane
Back to eastern Europe and Ethiopia Israhrlli @@ilovemusic555
Frozen in time is way too on point. I don't think that I could bear that pain of not knowing where my kid is
God bless the parents! ❤
I see most people didn't have the strength to watch this segment. Thank you for making it, anyway.
Poor souls! Hope they reunite soon.
This make me more mad about those spoiled kids that nothing to do that support Hamas
Support Hamas ? Spoken like a typical j... -- soulless
The saddest part is they come back with deep traumas that some won't be able to handle a basic living 😢
Settler colonialists
The American tax payer should have to pay them lots of money.
@@JustSnakes911 learn more. don't be a brainwashed dumbo.
It will take time , love and patience but they are alive and with that there is always hope ❤
@@RyanKSimmonsor leftist groups that openly support Hamas, like NBC, maybe start there.
how do people not realize this is war in a densely populated area with a terrorist organization who specializes in using human shield. like put two and two together.
simple, because they are simpletons
Seriously brain dead opinions. You people are the sheep
As if Israel is any better? Killing 30k civilians, and their leader is a crazy radical. He's off his rocker.
There are no human shield that is a racist lie.
How is bombing hospitals where hostages are potentially kept and journalists and preventing food from water from reaching civilians going to help bring back the hostages? It's not. The only reason people accept genocide as collateral is racism, pure and simple.
I can’t imagine the pain of that family when they see the pro hamas protesters squatting on the college property
😂😂😂😂 eat bacon
Those protesters are NOT pro hamas!!! They are anti war and anti genocide!!! Isreal bombing innocent civilians isn't going to help free the hostages!
@@Uglybrotherbonez And the hate continues!
@@Uglybrotherbonez5 year old.
I'm surprised NBC pretends to care about them
Y'all like drama. Just watch or go elsewhere. You're not under contract here...😂
@@GontlafetseMatshuba🤡
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You are sociopath.
No he lost his life when he left his wealthy San Francisco suburban life to move to a war torn desert.
Exactly!
You sound envious because his parents live in a wealthy area! What do their living conditions have to do with the brutality of losing a hand to a maniac group of kidnappers?
@@tomroyse1540 Wrong again. Do stupid things and now be known as STUMPY . 🤣🤣🤣
@@Cha-y412wtf is wrong with you?? You should seek some treatment.
@Cha-y412 I hope you lose yours then and you can see how it feels.
So Biden wants to negotiate with Hamas Trump would have never let this happen
Honestly I think Trump would actually have a heart as is admonished by one of his statements that this should have been done and over with by now and with scrutiny towards precision.
@_JackNapier I don't know if he would've gotten involved to much. I mean, he wouldn't want to risk something bad happening.
God bless! ❤
Love and Prayers for these parents along with all the families that are waiting for word about their loved ones ❤️🙏🏻🇮🇱🇺🇸
No thumbs down. Fair and balanced.
Sorry but my money should never have been sent to another country for them to go to war.
Anyone who spends even one minute in that area is risking their lives. STAY HOME.
End the war ! And give the Palestinians their State!
What was he doing there, partying? Conscription?
He was at a concert. Is there something wrong with that concept?!
@@mixedmeter I’m sure the Germans had plenty of parties after hours at the camps 😂😂😂😂😂
@@cmendoza1094 🤡
how about the 9700 hostages being held in Israeli prisons
It’s in middle of a war.
Israel doesn't take innocent civilians hostage. Terrorist organizations like hamas do that.
@@jamusmorrison3073 innocent civilians, have nothing to do with this war
or does that only apply for Israeli side?
@@mokahooj697 who’s innocent? They let their country be overtaken by Hamas and infiltrate their government.
The worst nightmare for parents. Praying for every hostage to be returned safely and IDF come back from this war intact and victorious!
I see they have a little “juden rat” cosplay on 😂😂😂😂😂
Father, I ask that you wrap your arms around the Polin family.. Please talk to them and bring guidance into their lives with your Word.. Father, I ask that you please bring healing from the hurt, pain, and sadness, healing from worry and anxiety.. Father, I ask that you please provide the help necessary in releasing all hostages.. In Jesus name, I pray.. Amen!!!
Muslims, does Allah have a left hand?
It’s a damned shame. Thank you JoJoBurden for being so weak.
Don’t forget the college protesters I mean pro terrorists
So sad this happened, meanwhile our college kids are out there cheering on Hamas.
Read more, you need it
Learn to read then read these comments
@@mixedmeteryou can read?
@@trinitylivingston1286 🤡
As a Muslim American, I’m sorry. What happened was not right. But unless we call all wrongs wrong, we are not doing justice to ourselves and people around us. What’s been happening to Palestinians and their land is and has been wrong for the past 74+ years. I hope he returns sooner than later.
Stop it you apologists make me sick
But but but they do it too isn't a valid defense or even true.
@@cmendoza1094Back to eastern Europe and Ethiopia Israhrlli
Blame Trump!
You own this democrats. This is what you support!!!!! This is who you are!!!!
#neverforget10/7
How many hostages died by the idf?
The IDF doesn't take innocent people hostage.
You are so brainwashed.
Shame on you Yahoo. 70 have been martyred due to the ODF. NBC, shouldn't edit out what he said.
Has this family seen the videos of thousands of babies and children blown apart and starving to death?
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1:19 😹 of course 😹
What about the other side story how had 100k between injuries and deaths and 10k hostages and 7 million Palestinian people living under occupation and 6 millions living in refugee camp????
7 million Palestinian people living under Hamas occupation.
Prove to me why they don't support hamas whom has been living in the city for years .
@@JDRamos213if you don't fight back you support it
Your cruelty to yourself to your Family, and to humanity, is showing up in your own life without mercy as much as my heart is broken listening to you how do you do this to yourself?🤢🤮💔💯🇺🇸🙏
Same to the family's who are waiting for their family's that been hostage for years like in the west bank of Palestina 13,500 are hostage where there is no hamas and sense of October 7 over 5,000 innocent Palestinians people hostage by Isreal. The total right now and still rising over 18,500 innocent people which the majority are kid's hostage by Isreal
Haha no Hamas. You don’t believe that do you? They are in the government and fighting as we speak. You see the problem is they don’t wear a uniform or announce they are Hamas. Not until they want to take credit for an evil act Allah told them to do.
how are they hostages? did isreal go into gaza during a ceasefire and take them? no. they are criminals. hamas are terrorists why do you support them?
Those are not hostages though they are enemy combatants and they should be grateful that they are still alive at this point considering how dangerous it is in this kind of warfare to do so.
@@Hybris51129 zionist Isrealis mindset doesn't surprise me anymore
@@Hybris51129 yea they are hostages, too. They all are in both countries.
Wait! So Hamas is in the US taking hostages?
No. He’s an American who was in Israel
@@nancygrimm2897 should have stayed there
@@staymad7206? And what do you mean by that?
@@nancygrimm2897 He is an Israeli with dual citizenship
@@nancygrimm2897 An American settler in Palestine *
Propaganda
Well maybe he shouldnt have gone and partied on the border with a concentration camp where unspeakable horrors are being committed by his government. How oblivious they are to the situation what did you expect
...... negotiating in trade for peace....is better than the endless wars.... negotiate.... negotiate negotiate $$$$....
Negotiating like USA negotiate after Pearl Harbor?
Yet that is **EXACTLY** what you are doing. We have seen this cycle restart too many times to ignore it because we can't handle the reality that this isn't a conflict that can be talked or bought out of. If you want peace, if you want an actual end to the violence one side or another must win. That said it is in America's interest for that victor to be Israel as the alternative is allowing a known hostile state towards us to continue existing. Keep that in mind war monger.
I feel sorry for this guy and his family but why is it that the media shows us the suffering of the Israelis on a personal level while treating the 34000 Palestinians killed as just a number
Because Israel & Egypt who both border Gaza will not allow outside media in Gaza. (Yes, Egypt) Also even if they did, Hamas would take them hostage. A media journalist would be a great hostage value for Hamas.
Because the hostages are victims of terrorism, while Gazans are casualties of war. Both of which are on Hamas.
@@noble1064what an insensitive terrorist remark.
propaganda
Because Hamas has made sure their people are just a number.
Shame on Yahoo 😮
Why? I don’t get it
Why are these people speaking like Americans? Do they live in New York? “Unspeakable Trauma” is what Palestinian children have experienced.
Because they are American. Why are you focused on one side?
dont care. now interview gazan families who had all their children killed
don't care. Perhaps they shouldn't raise their offspring to be terrorists.
Good job at showing that you're a sociopath.
thank God I was not raised in america
Thank god you weren't.
Blah blah!
These people aren’t American….. nice try though
there wouldn't be a hostage crisis under trump.
There were plenty of Americans taken hostage under trumps watch dumb dumb 😂
Is this a joke?
@@ronaldkichurchak3833 Where were you when Biden killed our energy production and made Iran wealthy enough to fund terrorism? Where were you when Biden showed the entire world how weak he is with his disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan?
Joe is doing a great job. Don't believe your own eyes and ears.
Wow, what planet are you on? You might severe dementia like him!
@@raedvalenzuela5085he’s obviously being sarcastic
nobody is buying anymore , all lies
Poor guy, wish him all the best but for every one of these kidnapped hostages, more than 200 innocent Palestinian women and children have been brutally murdered by NetanYahoo and the IDF😏 Hoping and praying for peace to both sides 🙏
If my family was partying in Israel I would disown them. Hopefully Jesus will forgive them
This is bad but i cant believe Nyetanyahu and Biden has made me immune to feeling bad about Israelis.
No that's your own moral bankruptcy 😊
Ah yes good tactic blame others for your own inabilities and lack of empathy ... Btw people in Gaza don't like westerners they dont like YOU 😅
@@oniondust And his libtardation.
Hamas and Massad two peas in a pod.
As an american, i feel sorry for his parents and hope he comes back safely. BUT DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE 34000 LIVES (70% WOMEN AND CHILDREN). Shame on you if you are
@@davidrothstein5664 it means while we talk about him, we should also talk about the genocide happening in front of our eyes in the same "news" segment
@@tuurtaburco do you understand Israel is fighting terrorists.
@@davidrothstein5664 we all see a genocide happening. Sorry you are so slow
Ok, so ask Hamas to give the hostages back then.
is it 70% women because the men are hiding in tunnels or using woman and children as human shields?
And I still support Palestine. You're not gonna bully me from the true moral position.
Son of Hamas leader says "palestinians and hamas are one in the same"
@@ketokarbs3671 And I still don't care. According to the UN an occupied people have the right to resist.
UN is corrupt
Poor people......but they went and took others land....?????
Nope. That land was never under a governing body until the arabs in the area went homicidal on the jews that immigrated back and established themselves there. Only when the jews came was it a problem all of a sudden.
The land was partitioned by the Allies after the fall of the Ottoman Empire after WW1, the arabs allied with the Ottomans in their genocide of millions of ethnic and religious minorities throughout the middle east. Most notably the Armenian and Greek Christians, the only arab entity that rebelled was Jordan. Which eventually led way to the establishment of the state of Israel. He was within Israeli borders and kidnapped from Israel.
You're ignorant.
@@chubss808he was within Israeli-an borders lol. Listen when you go into someone else’s land and do things they don’t like, you’re practically inviting them to come into your country to do something you won’t like. Stop acting as if Israel is just some innocent bystander that’s being forced to defend itself. Is real has done just as much as Hamas over the years to provoke and perpetuate this conflict.
Where is the interview with American Families with family in Gaza, racist and dishonest media
It’s very difficult to get footage. But I agree, the footage we do have us isn’t shown.
No one cares about the terrorist supporters and sympathizers in Gaza.
@@kendellfriend5558what do you mean that’s all i’ve seen is footage talking to Palestinians on the ground
THIS video happens to not be about that. THOSE videos are also available.
What about the videos of the Palestinian people cheering on the Hamas terrorists on 10/7?
now interview the families of the palestinian americans who are trapped or who have been slaughtered in gaza with US weapons
You cant cause them fools be crazy!
Are you kidding me? Who attacked the innocent civilians first? Should Israel let the terrorist org flourish?
Now interview the terrorists who celebrated October 7th
Do we get to see the video reaction of thousands crushed under buildings?
Like you could see the Iraqi and the Afganis people crushed under building when USA went to war!! Hypocrite !
That'd be a Flattened out no.
Free Israel
LOL!!! No I won't. I will never free them. What do you think about that?
He went to a concert ( on a stolen land ) and he was stolen. Surprised Pikachu 😮
FREE FREE PALESTINE 🇺🇸🇵🇸 AMERICA STANDS WITH PALESTINE 🇺🇸🇵🇸
they not going to mention that it was the IDF that blew up his arm?
proof?
Your stupidity is beyond an acceptable level.
@@em68855 right .. cause a certain religion of peace isn't well known for cutting things off people including heads ...
For a sec I thought they did it.
Crocodile tears
What is WRONG with you ? Karma may pay you a visit , then see how your tears look......
@@maryannerazzano7692I'd love to see it.
Hypocrites
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