A young American-Israeli was enjoying an electronic party in the Negev Desert when a group of Hamas terrorists paraglided in during a multiple attack Saturday in Israel. Hersh Golberg-Polin disappeared, but first he managed to send an emotional message to her parents through her cell phone.
Golberg-Polin, who just turned 23 that week, was at the party when militants from the terrorist group invaded the place and began attacking, his father told Israeli media.
“I love you” and “I’m sorry” were the last words the young man sent in a text message to his parents, who have not been able to locate him since then.
“We just want him home and safe,” his father Jonathon Polin told the outlet. “We love you. Come home to us,” he added.
The young man was also celebrating his release from military service, which he had completed at the end of April.
During his service, the young man drove in the Seventh Armored Brigade and then trained to become a doctor, the boy thought the latter was “more interesting than driving a tank,” according to his father.
Once his military service ended, Golberg-Polin dedicated himself to traveling, attending music festivals and watching the national soccer team.
A native of Berkeley, California, Golberg-Polin immigrated to Israel with his parents and two younger sisters when he was 7 years old.
Hundreds of people were forced to flee the open-air music festival that lasted all night on Saturday until Palestinian militants fired rockets and guns.
Israel’s Zaka rescue service said its paramedics recovered about 260 bodies from the music festival.
surprise attack
Israel declared itself in a state of war on Saturday, after Hamas launched a multiple attack, by land, sea and air, that caught the country by surprise, on an unprecedented scale, with the launch of rockets and ground incursions on Israeli soil. , where dozens of citizens have been killed and kidnapped.
The attack 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.
