Overview
- In a 60 Minutes interview, Rachel Goldberg-Polin described how her son was tortured, starved, abused, and maimed in captivity.
- She said officials later told her that Hamas executed Hersh by shooting him six times on the 328th day after his abduction, and the IDF recovered his body in an underground tunnel.
- Anderson Cooper said he viewed video in 2023 of Hersh being forced into a truck with the bones of his left arm exposed, consistent with accounts that an explosion had blown off that arm while he hid in a bunker.
- The family waged a public campaign to free hostages that included hundreds of media interviews, meetings with world leaders, and pleas broadcast by loudspeaker at the border.
- Goldberg-Polin was among hundreds taken from Israel on October 7, 2023 after the Hamas assault that targeted the Nova Music Festival and killed about 1,200 people.