Call for ceasefire in Gaza by parents of 23-year-old American-Israeli prisoner of the Islamic organization
The parents of an American Israeli hostage, who has been held for more than two months by the Hamasgave their heartbreaking testimony before him yesterday, Wednesday convention of the Democratic Party on USA and called for the release of the last people being held and an end to the war that is destroying Gaza.
Delegates critical of Washington’s Middle East policy later protested the absence of an American-Palestinian voice on the party’s convention agenda.
Amid warm applause and chants of “bring them home again,” the parents of Hirsch Goldberg-Paulin, a 23-year-old American-Israeli, took the podium in their hometown of Chicago.
His mother, Rachel Goldberg, broke down in tears talking about her son’s abduction during the bloody October 7 attack carried out by Hamas on Israeli soil.
“Among the hostages, there are 8 American citizens. And one of them is our only son,” he said, presenting him as a young man “full of humor and great curiosity.”
“He loves football, he is crazy about music and music festivals and he has a passion for geography,” he continued in this intervention that moved delegates to tears.
Her husband, John Pauline, called for a ceasefire, speaking of the “desperation” prevailing in the Gaza Strip over the Israeli offensive in response to the Hamas attack.
“In a contest of pain, there are no winners,” he emphasized.
The parents of the American-Israeli hostage gave their testimony at a time when hopes for a truce in Gaza are fading and as protesters protest in Chicago denouncing American support for Israel in the war.
The parents of another hostage spoke in July at the Republican convention in Milwaukee.
“We give equal value to Palestinians and Israelis. A family of an Israeli hostage spoke, we also had to listen to an elected American of Palestinian descent,” Minnesota congresswoman Asma Mohamed, head of a group of about 30 pro-Palestinian congressmen, told AFP.
She added that the delegates in question will hold a sit-in protest today to make the organizers of the conference change their minds.
Source :Skai
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