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Please add a segment highlighting the international protests for his release. Specifically my suggestion would be this part:

There have been international shows of solidarity and protests demanding release of Hersh, for example at the [Fusion Festival]( /info/en/?search=Fusion_Festival) 2024, where several hundred people came together, presenting the Supernova survivors' slogan of 'We will dance again' on a banner, showing solidarity with the victim's of the Supernova festival and raising their fists to explicitly demand Hersh's release and solidarity with him, too, who participated in the Fusion Festival in 2023.

This did amplify the hashtag #FreeHersh in the German speaking language sphere and was followed by the renowned football club Werder Bremen with hoisting a large flag demanding "Free Hersh" in front of their football field. The club and fans did regularly demand Hersh's release, at least since November 2023.

Relevant informaiton comes from a German article which tells that several hundred people raised their fists in solidarity with the Supernova victim's and Hersh, showing the slogan 'We will dance again' (the slogan of the Supernova survivors) on a banner. Here is the German source followed by the link to the article: "Doch zumindest einige Festivalbesucherinnen und Mitarbeitende trugen ihre Solidarität mit dem Supernova mit auf die Fusion. Am Freitagabend erinnerten mehrere Hundert Menschen mit Bengalos und erhobenen Fäusten an Hersh. »We will dance again« stand auf einem Transparent – ein Slogan der Supernova-Überlebenden" https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/kultur/wo-hersh-letztes-jahr-noch-tanzte/

For the football club the relevant source is this: "Werder Bremen made a heartfelt tribute on Thursday to Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who is still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza and is a fan of the German club. The club displayed a green flag with Goldberg-Polin’s picture outside their home stadium, with the words "Let Hersh Free" written on it." https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/bjpwokndc

Could go to the stadium and do a quick picture if we would want to add that to the article, but the articles have good pictures, too.

The information for the regularly showing support comes form this source: https://jungle.world/artikel/2023/47/israelischer-werder-fan-hamas-bring-hersh-back-home -- AmbroseVenture ( talk) 08:20, 7 July 2024 (UTC) reply

I have reassessed this article a second time because a redirect to 2023 Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis was undone. Before redirecting this article again, can editors please go through an appropriate discussion process to merge, redirect or delete this article in order to achieve consensus, and then reassess the article and tag it as a Template:Talk page of a redirect, if necessary. Deletion by redirection should be discussed first via the AfD process. - Cameron Dewe ( talk) 02:47, 27 December 2023 (UTC) reply

Not going to mention how he's literally missing his right arm? You know, that they blew it off of him?

Come on, now. 72.78.76.172 ( talk) 02:49, 2 May 2024 (UTC) reply

It's his left hand. Not right arm. But he was left handed so sort of the same. It's now described as a "traumatic amputation". MWQs ( talk) 10:14, 21 June 2024 (UTC) reply

I don't think "they blew it off" as such, he probably tried throw back a hand grenade. It's hard to tell if the intended damage was less of more. He was in a bomb shelter with others, the militants threw in hand grenades, they may have been trying to get the people to run out so they could take hostages, or they may have been trying to kill them, but blowing off a hand doesn't seem to have been the goal. MWQs ( talk) 10:25, 21 June 2024 (UTC) reply

And that is what "wounded" means. e.g. The IDF only count about 3,600 of their troops as "wounded" when over 7,300 have required hospital treatment. And out of the 80,000 people who have been "wounded" in Gaza, 3000 of those are children who have lost one or more limbs (there's no published figures for adult amputees, but about 15,000 if it's proportionate to deaths), When people talk about "wounded" in war zones, lost limbs are the sort of thing they mean. MWQs ( talk) 10:42, 21 June 2024 (UTC) reply

They're is publicly available video of him being loaded into the ute. We should find it and include it as a reference or external media. I have seen it on YouTube in an interview with his father, I'm not having much luck finding it again, but it definitely exists. MWQs ( talk) 10:47, 21 June 2024 (UTC) reply

He was kidnapped by an Islamic resistence group. 2A0D:6FC0:777:C00:35D3:2301:71E3:8DC4 ( talk) 19:48, 24 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Baby killers that called to behead Jews are "resistance" movement? 2A00:A041:2C22:700:7CA6:C5D1:B0A:99FD ( talk) 13:54, 30 June 2024 (UTC) reply