After Hamas Executes Berkeley Native, City Commission to Debate Cease-Fire Resolution

Weeks after Berkeley, Calif., native Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s body was recovered from Gaza, the progressive city’s Peace and Justice commission will debate and vote on a resolution calling for an “immediate and permanent” cease-fire in Gaza and “support for Palestinian self-determination.”

The September 30 vote was initially scheduled for Tuesday, just one day after Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was buried, but was pushed back due to a “noticing error.” The Israeli military found Goldberg-Polin’s body during a rescue operation late last week, and determined that the Berkeley native was executed by Hamas terrorists who kidnapped him almost one year ago from the Nova music festival in southern Israel. Hundreds of people gathered at Berkeley’s Congregation Beth Israel, the Goldberg-Polin family’s former synagogue, this past weekend to mourn the slain hostage.

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Weeks after Berkeley, Calif., native Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s body was recovered from Gaza, the progressive city’s Peace and Justice commission will debate and vote on a resolution calling for an “immediate and permanent” cease-fire in Gaza and “support for Palestinian self-determination.”

The September 30 vote was initially scheduled for Tuesday, just one day after Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was buried, but was pushed back due to a “noticing error.” The Israeli military found Goldberg-Polin’s body during a rescue operation late last week, and determined that the Berkeley native was executed by Hamas terrorists who kidnapped him almost one year ago from the Nova music festival in southern Israel. Hundreds of people gathered at Berkeley’s Congregation Beth Israel, the Goldberg-Polin family’s former synagogue, this past weekend to mourn the slain hostage.