Joe Biden heads to the State of affairs Room with Kamala Harris after Hamas hostages had been discovered useless

The distraught dad and mom of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin have damaged their silence after studying he was killed by Hamas.

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was kidnapped by terrorists from the Nova Pageant – the place he was celebrating his birthday with pals – on October 7 final yr, when Hamas launched its assault on Israel. He misplaced a part of an arm within the assault.

His dad and mom Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, simply 12 days in the past, begged Hersh to ‘keep sturdy’ and ‘survive’ in a gut-wrenching speech on the Democratic Nationwide Conference that noticed the couple name for a ceasefire deal.

However yesterday the the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) confirmed that the our bodies of six hostages taken by Hamas have been recovered from Gaza with Hersh being among the many deceased.

Hersh’s household confirmed his demise in an announcement on Sunday, hours after the Israeli military stated it had situated our bodies in Gaza. They stated: ‘With damaged hearts, the Goldberg-Polin household is devastated to announce the demise of their beloved son and brother, Hersh. The household thanks you all on your love and help and asks for privateness at the moment.’

In wake of Hersh’s homicide, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will sit down with US hostage negotiators as we speak to push for a deal that ‘secures the discharge of the remaining hostages’.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are assembly with the U.S. hostage negotiating crew within the State of affairs Room on Monday morning.

The gathering comes two days after six hostages, together with 23-year-old American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, had been killed on Saturday by Hamas terrorists.

The Labor Day assembly is closed to the press and comes because the one-year anniversary approaches of Hamas’ preliminary invasion in Israel on October 7, 2023, which resulted within the deadliest single-day assault on Jewish individuals because the Holocaust.

Goldberg-Polin was amongst these taken hostage by Hamas terrorists within the Oct. 7 assault. He and 5 different Israeli hostages had been murdered on Saturday.

Strain has been mounting for the final yr for President Biden to withhold humanitarian support and drive Hamas’ hand in releasing Israeli and different overseas hostages being held by the terrorist group in Palestinian enclave of Gaza.

President Joe Biden and First Woman Jill Biden calm down on the seaside in Rehoboth Seashore, Delaware on Saturday, August 31

Tim Walz’s older brother has warned that the Democratic vice presidential hopeful is ‘not the kind of character’ you need within the White Home.

Jeff Walz, 67, took to Fb final week to share his issues about his youthful brother operating alongside Kamala Harris.

‘The tales I may inform,’ he said in one of many posts, a five-word warning that will ship shudders down the spines of workers at Harris HQ.

The married father-of-two was urged to throw his weight behind the Trump marketing campaign by different Fb customers when he declared Friday night: ‘I am 100% against all his ideology.’

Jeff, who lives in Freeport, Florida, together with his spouse Laurie, adopted up that publish by replying to others who advised him to ‘communicate up … at this pivotal second in historical past.’

An historian who’s been known as the ‘Nostradamus’ of predicting winners of presidential elections has dropped a significant trace as to who he thinks will take the White Home come 2025.

Allan Lichtman, who has appropriately known as 9 out of the ten final elections, stated in a YouTube livestream Thursday he’s nearing his ‘closing prediction’ for the 2024 race.

‘You do not have to be affected person for a complete lot longer. Take pleasure in your Labor Day weekend … and inside days after that the prediction needs to be out,’ the American College professor stated on the stream together with his son, Sam. ‘And this shall be a closing prediction.’

Whereas being coy about his final forecast, Lichtman gave away an enormous clue by slamming a rival pollster, Nate Silver, who just lately stated Trump was his favourite.

‘I simply noticed as we speak essentially the most absurd prediction,’ Lichtman stated, referring to Silver.

The most recent polling means that Kamala Harris has acquired little to no conference increase, displaying Donald Trump forward of the vp in a number of essential swing states.

A Trafalgar Group survey of seven of the hardest contests – thought of by specialists to be Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina and Nevada – present Trump both within the lead and even with Harris.

The Trafalgar survey, which is taken into account by polling aggregators to lean Republican, additionally exhibits Harris virtually even with Trump in Michigan, with the previous president eking out a 47% to 46.6% lead.