We are not alone in having lost,” Rachel Goldberg-Polin said. “There are thousands of people in Israel who have lost people; there are thousands and thousands of people in Gaza who have lost people.”

The U.S. has urged Israel to delay its much-anticipated ground invasion of Gaza to encourage hostage negotiations and improve aid flow, reports say.

Hersh Goldberg-Polin was taken hostage on Oct. 7 at the Nova music festival. Israeli troops found his body in a tunnel in Gaza in late August.

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