‘Bring them home’ – Heartbroken parents of US Hamas hostage speak at Democratic convention

The parents of an American-Israeli hostage, who has been held for more than two months by the Palestinian Hamas, yesterday, Wednesday, August 21, gave their heartbreaking testimony before the Democratic Party convention and demanded that the last people held be released and the end of the war that destroys the Gaza Strip. Delegates critical of Washington’s Middle East policy later protested the absence of an American-Palestinian voice on the party’s convention agenda. Amid warm applause and chants of “bring them home again,” the parents of Hirsch Goldberg-Paulin, a 23-year-old American-Israeli, took the podium in their hometown of Chicago. They couldn’t hold back their tears His mother, Rachel Goldberg, broke down in tears talking about her son’s abduction during the bloody October 7 attack carried out by Hamas on Israeli soil. “Among the hostages, there are eight American citizens. And one of them is […]
Source: News Beast

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