Rachel Golberg, the mother of a missing 23-year-old American, recalled her last interaction with her son before he was “driven away by Hamas” terrorists on Saturday after they attacked a desert concert in Israel. Hundreds of young concertgoers were slaughtered by the Palestinian gunmen at the concert, where women were also raped and many of the attendees were kidnapped.

Golberg spoke during a press conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday and recalled both the last message she received from her son, Hersh Golberg-Polin, and the horrifying details of his last moments before Hamas took him prisoner.

“There were two texts in a row from Hersh at 8:11. The first one said, ‘I love you.’… also, it said, ‘I’m sorry’. And so I knew immediately, wherever he was, it was a terrible situation,” Golberg said.

“I took it to mean I love you and I’m sorry because whatever is going to happen is going to cause you tremendous pain and worry,” she said, adding:

Since that time, I, of course, tried calling him right back. There was no answer. I texted him a couple of times. Are you okay? I’ve not heard from him since the text I received at 8:11 on Saturday morning.

Goldberg then explained that witnesses told her about her son’s struggle with the Palestinian gunmen who she was told blew off his arm as he hid in a bomb shelter.

“We’ve spoken to eyewitnesses. We know that he was injured in a gun battle. I mean, they were all civilians at a music festival in they were fish in a barrel sitting in this bomb shelter. Terrorists came to the door. They were throwing grenades and shooting machine guns. And we know that Hirsch’s arm from the elbow down was severed, was blown off, and that he tied a tourniquet around with his shirt,” she said.

“Hamas came in after the gunfire settled down and said anyone who can walk, stand up and walk out,” Golberg continued, adding:

We are told that he was completely calm. I think he was probably in shock. And he got up and he walked out with five other people, young people from the music festival, two young women, three other young men. They were put on a pickup truck and driven away by Hamas. Then the police told us one thing they knew is that the last known cell signal from his phone was on the border with Gaza.

As of Tuesday, the death toll from Hamas’s devastating attack on the south of Israel stood at over 1,000 – primarily civilians who were gunned down in their homes and young concertgoers who were slaughtered en mass at a desert rave.

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