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“In a competition of pain, there are no winners,” said Jonathan Polin, father of 23-year-old American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
Haim Peri, Yagev Buchshtab, Avraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell and Alexander Dancyg were determined to have been killed in captivity.
However, a Hezbollah strike could be coming soon.
“We had been preparing ourselves for a negative response ... and we were shocked,” said Rachel Goldberg-Polin.
“This is a political convention. But needing our only son, and all of the cherished hostages, home is not a political issue. It is a humanitarian issue.”
An interview with Louis Har, who spent 129 days in Hamas captivity after being taken hostage on Oct. 7.
One message sent to hostage families read, “If you don’t fight, you won’t see your loved ones return,” according to the report.
The Israeli-American Council aimed to create “a pro-Israel space for people who want to show solidarity with Israel, with the hostage families and to raise awareness of the situation of the hostages still being held in Gaza.”
“We will also be very, very determined and persist in bringing the fallen back” for Jewish burial, said the top IDF commander.
The terrorist group has announced its intent to renew suicide bombings inside Israel, but Israeli security forces are not sure whether the statement was intended primarily for propaganda purposes.
Washington is increasingly pessimistic due to Hamas’s public rejections of the latest bridging proposal, but still holds out hope.
The hostages’ remains were found near the bodies of Hamas terrorists, and their cause of death remains unclear, according to the IDF.
