The hostage who threw back grenades at the festival until his arm exploded has been found

April 25, 2024 – 2:28 p.m

Hersh Goldberg-Polin in a video released by Hamas on April 25 – Photo: Hamas Media Office / AFP

Our Thursday summary of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Hamas has released a video in which an Israeli-American hostage talks about how the prisoners live in hellish conditions. He said he was 23-year-old Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was kidnapped by terrorists from the Nova festival on October 7. We wrote about him before, because according to eyewitnesses, he fled to a shelter with others, which was attacked by the Hamas forces with grenades. According to eyewitnesses, Goldberg-Polin threw the grenades one after the other until one blew off his forearm. (BBC)
According to the latest announcement by the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, there have been 34,305 deaths from Israeli attacks. Meanwhile, Israel continues to bomb the Gaza Strip.
Israel may be preparing to send troops to Rafah, the only Gaza city still free of fighting and where at least half of the strip’s 2.3 million people fled after Israel overran the region’s north. (Guardians)
Students at the University of Texas at Austin walked out of class and began demonstrating against Israel’s operations in Gaza. Both city and state police were deployed to stop the demonstration. Mounted police armed with rubber batons pushed back the students and arrested at least 20 participants — including a Fox photographer. (Guardians)

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