A young American-Israeli attending a rave that was disrupted by Hamas terrorists on Saturday texted his parents “I love you” and “I’m sorry,” before becoming unreachable, as horrifying videos emerge of attackers entering paragliding to the party and kidnapping attendees.
Hersh Golberg-Polin, who just turned 23 this week, was celebrating in the northern Negev desert when Hamas militants invaded the party and began attacking attendees, his father told the Jerusalem Post.
After texting her parents, “I love you” and “I’m sorry,” Golberg-Polin became unreachable.
“We just want him home and safe,” his father, Jonathon Polin, told the outlet, adding that if he could say anything to his son, he would say, “We love you. Come home to us.”
The 23-year-old had also been celebrating his release from military service, which ended at the end of April.
During his service, Golberg-Polin drove tanks in the 7th Armored Brigade and later trained to become a medic, his father said, adding that his son thought it was “more interesting than driving a trank.”
Goldberg-Polin disappeared after the chilling text message.Facebook
Since finishing his service, he has enjoyed traveling, attending music festivals, and watching the Hapoel Jerusalem soccer team.
He had been working as a doctor and waiter to try to save up to visit India, which had been a long-time dream of his, his father said.
Golberg-Polin, a native of Berkeley, California, made aliyah with his mother, father and two younger sisters when he was just 7 years old.
Hersh Goldberg-Polin left his family Friday night at 11 pm to enjoy the festivities and has not been heard from since Saturday morning. family brochure
Hundreds of people were forced to flee the all-night open-air music festival on Saturday when Palestinian militants fired rockets and gunshots.
Horrific videos shared online captured the moment young Israelis went from enjoying the festival to being attacked, with some screaming for their lives as they were kidnapped.
Israel suffered more than 600 dead and nearly 1,600 wounded in a surprise attack by Hamas that was the worst attack the country has faced in 50 years.
Israel suffered more than 300 deaths and nearly 1,600 injuries in a surprise attack by Hamas that was the worst attack the country has faced in 50 years.Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
The attack on Israel was timed for a major Jewish holiday, Sichat Torah, and came on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war, in which Arab states bombed the country on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.
A Hamas spokesman stated that the number of Israeli hostages taken is “many times greater than Netanyahu thinks.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced “We are at war” and promised that Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”
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