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He looks swollen, we don't know why. But he sounds strong. My wife and I sat just the two of us, watched the video and cried, not knowing he was alive. I've seen it already 20 times,
Poland said in an interview with Kan He sounded strong, hearing him say he missed us - it strengthened us."
John Polin recounted watching the video of his son in Hamas captivity We heard about the video after it went up on Telegram, we watched it at the same time everyone else did. As parents, we know our children well, and we have reasons to worry about their health. We spoke with several entities, we know they also watched the video to understand what they can take from it. We are waiting for more information from the government,
It seems to us that he is reading something that someone wrote to him,
The flipside of that is we as parents know our son better than anybody and we see a level of distress and some things than concern us about his health, not only obviously his arm that we knew was blown off
Instead, I found myself struggling to survive with serious injuries all over my body
The emaciated man, who has spent more than six months as a hostage and was seen with a shaved head, said For more than 200 days, 133 hostages have been held captive by Hamas, enduring daily physical, sexual, and psychological torment
The hostage's forum in Tel Aviv told MailOnline Remember, of course, when these videos are released, they are not speaking freely. They are being told what they can and cannot say by their captors,
With each passing day, the fear of losing more innocent lives grows stronger,
He went to a concert with his friends, and he was stolen from his life and stolen from our lives,
Seeing that video just further lights the fire that we need to push all leaders, all of the world, every leader in this region, everybody who has been involved in negotiations,
He certainly doesn’t look like himself,
Initially, we were just crying,
Goldberg-Polin told NBC News in an interview in Jerusalem on Thursday morning, less than 24 hours after Hamas released the footage of her son, Hersh It’s time to diffuse and release the pressure and the tension in this region, and to put a stop to all the suffering,
That is very painful. I mean, painful is too small of a word of what it's like for any parent.”
I was just looking at him and hearing his voice,
We love you, stay strong, survive."
His brave parents, Jon and Rachel, responded to the heartbreaking video by saying And Hersh, if you can hear this, we heard your voice today for the first time in 201 days, and if you can hear us, I am telling you, we are telling you, we love you, stay strong, survive,
his mother, Rachel Goldberg-Polin said Benjamin Netanyahu and his government should be ashamed of yourselves because you neglected us along with thousands of other citizens,
Be brave, lean in, seize this moment and get a deal done to reunite all of us with our loved ones and end the suffering in this region,