ISRAEL (VINnews) — This past Thursday, the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Rachel and Jon, visited the Gaza border and shouted at their son through a megaphone. It is believed that Hersh was alive at the time, and we can only hope that he heard his mother’s deeply heart-felt words.
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“It’s Mama, Hersh” shouted Rachel Goldberg-Polin into the speakers, while standing at the Gaza border.
“It’s day 328. We are all here, all the families of the remaining 107 hostages. Hersh, we are working day and night, and we will never stop. I need you to know that I am giving you now the blessing I give you every single morning when I pray for you, and every Friday night I go out on the porch, towards Gaza, and I give you the Kohanic blessing: May G-d bless you and keep you. May G-d shine His face upon you and be gracious to you.”
“It’s Mama, Hersh” shouted Rachel Goldberg-Polin into the speakers, while standing at the Gaza border.
“It’s day 328. We are all here, all the families of the remaining 107 hostages. Hersh, we are working day and night, and we will never stop.
I need you to know that I am giving… pic.twitter.com/fc66SZy0zI— Bring Them Home Now (@bringhomenow) August 29, 2024
ADL leader Jonathan Greenblatt posted the video on X and wrote: “This is what Rachel shouted into the loudspeaker while standing at the border of Gaza just a few days ago. We believe Hersh z”l was alive then. I only hope he heard his mother’s voice, and that he could feel her love in his final days.:-”
“It’s mama.”
This is what Rachel shouted into the loudspeaker while standing at the border of Gaza just a few days ago. We believe Hersh z”l was alive then. I only hope he heard his mother’s voice, and that he could feel her love in his final days. https://t.co/XKITc9HVi9
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) September 1, 2024
The Goldberg-Polin parents were joined by other relatives of hostages holding a protest event near the Gaza border, who symbolically breached a kibbutz’s perimeter fence and attempted to run toward their loved ones held in Gaza before heeding pleas by security forces to return.
The families had gathered at the Gaza border to call out and scream with the hope their loved ones being held in captivity would hear them. They spoke words of prayer and other words of chizuk and inspiration, as well as cries of despair and anguish.
Video from the scene showed about two dozen relatives crossing Kibbutz Nirim’s perimeter fence and striding toward the Gaza border barrier — about two kilometers away — wearing t-shirts with bloody handprints on them and carrying signs saying “Their blood is on the hands of the government” and posters with the faces of their relatives.
A short while later, they heeded calls from the military to turn back to Nirim.
At no point did the families come close to breaching the Gaza border barrier or entering the Strip. The relatives only ran along a path adjacent to the kibbutz’s perimeter fence, which is an access road to nearby fields.
💔Emotional footage of families with loved ones held hostage by #Hamas terrorists in #Gaza for 102 days & counting.
The families set up loudspeakers near the Gaza border, yelling into megaphones & hoping that their loved ones can hear them. #BringThemHome pic.twitter.com/xvzLAimE8O
— CIJA (@CIJAinfo) January 16, 2024
“Edan Alexander,” called Varda Ben Baruch, grandmother of the 20-year-old lone soldier from Tenafly, New Jersey, who was taken captive October 7. “It’s Grandma and Grandpa, you are our soul, do you hear us? Idanaleh! Mom and Dad are waiting for you, we’re worried about you and waiting for your return home. Be strong, you’re strong, survive, we’re doing everything we can for you and for all the other hostages.”
“Nimrod, Dad is speaking, we’re here at the border,” called Yehuda Cohen, whose son, Nimrod, was a soldier taken hostage on October 7 from the Nahal Oz army base. “I will not give up until you come home. I will run everywhere in the world until we have a deal that will free you and the other hostages.”
Shira Albag, mother of Liri Albag, sobbed. Liri, 19, is one of the female surveillance soldiers held captive. Liri’s sister screamed into the microphone, begging her not to give up.
Eli Shtivi, father of Idan Shtivi, wore a Tallis and called out to his son, telling him that Israel would give up on controlling the Philadelphi Corridor, which separates Gaza from Egypt, in order to get him and the other hostages home.
Yes MAMA ! I feel like crying .
Heartbreak
How sad. That being said, what was she doing talking at the DNC?? All this tragedy and disaster was made possible by Biden/Harris and Co. You think the thousands of liberal weirdos in the attendance give a damn? No they don’t. A wall has more sympathy. Should have called them out on it.