Hamas Issues Video Showing Israeli-American Hostage Goldberg-Polin

Rachel Goldberg, U.S.-Israeli mother of Hersh Goldberg Polin, which was taken hostage by Hamas militants into the Gaza Strip while attending a music festival in south Israel, holds photos of her son in their home, in Jerusalem on Oct. 17, 2023 Ammar Awad/Reuters

JERUSALEM—Hamas terrorists published a video on Wednesday apparently showing Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-American seized during Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and taken into Gaza, alive.

The short, undated video showed the 23-year-old missing a lower arm, but otherwise apparently healthy. He was shown saying he had sustained serious injuries during the Oct. 7 attack “after I tried using my body as a shield to protect myself and other fearful civilians.”