Hamas published a propaganda video of Israeli-American dual citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin on Wednesday, marking the first sign of life from the 23-year-old since he was abducted by the terror group on Oct. 7.
In the video, a gaunt-looking Goldberg-Polin identified himself as Israeli and said he had been held captive for “nearly 200 days,” suggesting that the video was taken recently, the Times of Israel noted.
Goldberg-Polin is seen with a buzzed haircut and missing his left arm from below the elbow.
The limb was blown off when Hamas descended on the Supernova music festival in the Negev desert in the early hours of Oct. 7.
Israeli media outlets do not publish the videos, which are considered an act of psychological warfare.
Hersh was at the festival with a friend, and narrowly survived the initial attack before he was caught on video being loaded into a truck with his left arm visibly mangled.
Goldberg-Polin’s parents, Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin, declined to give interviews immediately after the video was released, their media rep told The Post.
The video of Goldberg-Polin was released just a few days after his family made yet another impassioned plea for his return in honor of the start of Passover.
“All of the symbolic things we do at the Seder will take on a much more profound and deep meaning this year,” Goldberg told reporters ahead of the major holiday.
Though the family planned to participate in a Seder, they were not sure how it would playout, she added.
“If 15 minutes in, we just can’t do it, and we need to cry, then we will cry,” she said.
Goldberg and Polin sat down with The Post earlier in April to mark six months since their son and over 250 others were taken by Hamas during the deadly terror attack.
“At a certain point, we did realize that hope is mandatory, optimism is mandatory,” Goldberg said. “We’re trying to save our son’s life, we’re trying to help save the lives of all of the hostages who are still alive.”
Before his abduction, Hersh Goldberg-Polin was known for his love of reading, his passion for soccer and music festivals, and “funny, but not clownish” personality.
When asked how the family planned to mark Passover in 2024, Rachel Goldberg insisted that they planned on having their son “home, at our table.”
With Post wires
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