The Islamist group Hamas This Saturday he published a video of the captive Edan Alexander hostage in the Gaza Strip for more than 420 days, in which the young man asks the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahuto take them out of the enclave.
“Fear and isolation are killing us. Please don’t forget us. “It is not reasonable for us to pay the price for our Government’s error.”says Alexander, 20, in a possibly scripted video in which he appears crying.
Alexander, according to local media, an American citizen born in Tel Avivjoined the Golani Brigade as a “lone” soldier after graduating from Secondary Education in 2022. The young man asks Israeli citizens to speak out in favor of an agreement and to pressure the Government to save the 101 hostages who are still in the hands of Hamas and other militias since October 2023.
In the second half of the video, Alexander speaks in English and asks the new US administration to donald trump to intervene to obtain his release. Just a week ago, Hamas published another video in which alleged that a hostage had been killed by Israeli attacks in northern Gaza, showing images in which a white sheet with blood stains appears.
According to the spokesman for the al-Qasam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, Abu Obeida, Another hostage was also seriously injured. The Israeli Army, for its part, said it could not verify the veracity of the images.
97 Israelis remain kidnapped
Of the 251 kidnapped in the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 (in which 1,200 people also died)97 captives – half already dead – remain in the enclave. There have been four other hostages for years, including two dead soldiers.
Four hostages were released by Hamas last October and eight were rescued by the Armywhile the bodies of more than 37 hostages have been recovered, at least three killed by mistaken shots by Israeli troops.
Since the war began, Israel and Hamas They only reached a one-week truce agreement a year agobetween November 24 and 30, which allowed the release of 105 hostages – 81 Israelis and 24 foreigners – in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners.