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A Hamas fanatic declared during Monday’s anti-Israel protest in Manhattan that American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, “deserved” to be murdered by the terrorist group in a shocking video that pro-Israel influencer Lizzy Savetsky captured. On Saturday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers found Goldberg-Polin’s body in Gaza after nearly a year of being Hamas’s hostage. The viral Instagram video, which amassed more than 30,000 likes and 5,000 comments in less than 24 hours, shows who appears to be Savetsky’s husband, Dr. Ira Savetsky, confronting the unidentified man in his vehicle.

CHICAGO, Illinois — The delegates at the Democratic National Convention rose to their feet, and stayed there, as the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, one of five living American hostages still being held captive by Hamas, spoke on Wednesday. Like the Republican National Convention last month in Milwaukee, which featured the parents of another American hostage, Omer Neutra, Democrats gave a speaking slot to Goldberg-Polin’s parents, both Chicago-born.