Archiv: Edan Alexander


16.05.2025 - 22:32 [ Jeremy Scahill / Drop Site News ]

Hamas Says Witkoff Personally Promised to Lift Gaza Blockade in Exchange for Edan Alexander

“It was a deal,” said Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau who has previously engaged in direct talks with U.S. officials. He said the pledge was made by “Witkoff, himself.” In an interview with Drop Site, Naim said the agreement was: “If we release [Alexander], Trump will speak out thanking Hamas for its gesture, obliging Israel on the second day to open the borders and allow aid to come into Gaza, and [Trump would] call for an immediate ceasefire and to go for negotiations to end the war.”

“He did nothing of this,” Naim added. “They didn‘t violate the deal. They threw it in the trash.”

12.05.2025 - 18:12 [ Times of Israel ]

IDF: Red Cross confirms it has Edan Alexander, bringing him to Israeli troops now

The Red Cross is now bringing Alexander to IDF special forces inside Gaza to then be escorted out of the Strip, the military adds.

Alexander was released by Hamas without a public ceremony.

12.05.2025 - 15:39 [ Al Jazeera ]

Edan Alexander handover now expected at 15:30 GMT

We are hearing from Israeli media, citing Israeli defence officials, that the handover is expected to take place around 6:30pm (15:30 GMT).

The handover will be facilitated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Alexander will be handed over and then taken to Israeli officials.

12.05.2025 - 15:35 [ Middle East Eye ]

Hamas says US-Israeli captive to be handed over after 14:00

A source close to Hamas told AFP the handover of US-Israeli captive Edan Alexander, who has been held in Gaza since October 2023, would „most likely“ take place after 14:00 GMT on Monday.

12.05.2025 - 15:34 [ New York Times ]

Hamas Says It Will Release Its Last American Hostage

Hamas, the Palestinian armed group, said on Sunday night that it would free the last living American citizen held captive in Gaza, just days before President Trump is expected to arrive in the region for the first major foreign tour of his second term.

Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas’s lead negotiator, said in a statement that Hamas had agreed to free the hostage, Edan Alexander, 21, after talks with the United States.

03.12.2024 - 03:21 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

‘Netanyahu Will Build Settlements Above Hostages’ Heads’: Israelis Protests

Thousands of protesters gathered Saturday evening, November 30, for a hostage release deal and cease-fire in Gaza across Israel, after Hamas released a video of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander in captivity. His mother, Yael, spoke at the main rally in Tel Aviv.

Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, says that it is “impossible to hold back the tears” after watching the video released by Hamas which Alexander “begs to return home,” and attacked the far-right government.

“A government that does not put a new initiative on the table for a deal and an end to the war to bring back Edan and the other hostages is a government that betrays the hostages and their families, and sacrifices them to their deaths in captivity,” Zangauker says at the massive demonstration held in front of the Israeli army headquarters at Begin Road in Tel-Aviv. “This week, the prime minister signed a deal for an end to the war in Lebanon. How can it be that Netanyahu signs a deal for the north but prevents a deal for the end of the war in the South?”