Parents of Hamas hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin feel widespread support, but leaders ‘not doing enough’

Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin, parents of Hamas hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, tell Channel 12 they do not feel alone in their struggle but abandoned by global leadership.

“We have tremendous support from regular people all over the world and here in Israel, and we see in the polls recently week after week the rising support for a deal to get done, no matter what it takes, to get the hostages home, so I don’t feel forgotten, I don’t feel alone,” Rachel said, adding she still feels pain over her son’s absence.

Rachel also says she watched last night for the first time a video of her son’s gruesome abduction, which was released by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum Monday.

“I knew that it would be hard for me,” she says, adding that her daughter told her not to watch it, due to the graphic content.

“It in a way took us back to October 7, in some sort of psychological way,” she says, adding it “dug deeper into that trauma.”

“It’s obvious that all of our leaders are not doing enough” to get the hostages released, she states.