The Hamas Islamist group announced this Sunday with a statement that It will release the American-Israelí Edan Alexander soldieras part of the efforts to “achieve the high fire, open the border steps and introduce help and humanitarian assistance” in the Gaza Strip.
The group, which has not specified when Alexander will release this decision as a result of having had conversations during the last days with the administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, in which he claims to have maintained a “very positive” attitude.
“This statement is an indication that he is alive”has told Efe the press advisor of the political bureau of Hamas, Taher al Nono. On April 15, the Qasam Brigades, the armed arm of the organization, claimed to have lost contact with the captors of Edan Alexander after an Israeli attack and its state was unknown until now.
Hamas has influenced being willing to start “immediately intensive negotiations already make serious efforts to achieve a final agreement put an end to war. “
They access that an independent technical committee be believed
Islamists say they access to be believed orn Independent Technical Committee to administer the Gaza Strip “So the continuity of calm and stability for many years” in this devastated Palestinian territory is guaranteed.
Israel has sued since the beginning of the conversations for the high fire that Hamas is outside the Gaza government and insisted that the group refused to leave it.
In December 2024, when it seemed that Hamas and Fatah (secular formation with which he maintains a strong antagonism for decades and that is the greatest force in the National Palestinian authority, ruler in the West Bank) were going to close the creation of said committee, the Islamists accused the secular ones of having lying the proposal.
In addition, Hamas has assured this Sunday that The new high fire agreement would include an exchange of hostages by Palestinian prisoners and lasting peace in the enclave that allows its reconstruction and the end of the blockade of the access of goods it suffers.
Edan Alexander is the only living hostage with American citizenship of the 59 captives that remain in Gaza. Israeli authorities estimate that 24 are still alivealthough in recent days the national press has collected that there are doubts about the authentic situation of three of them.
Last Saturday 12 Hamas published a video, possibly scripted, in which Alexander appears screaming and gesturing sharply, blaming the Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, of the lack of an agreement for his release.
The hostage, now 21 years old (kidnapped with 19), is a “lonely soldier”, as those young people who go to Israel are known to do mandatory military service despite the fact that his family does not reside in the country, which was parked near the divide of Gaza on October 7, 2023, day of Hamas’s attack against Israeli.
That day, militiamen led by Hamas from Gaza entered Israeli territory and killed some 1,200 people, also kidnapping another 251. Following this attack, Israel launched its offensive on the Gaza Strip, which lasts until today and that has claimed the lives of more than 52,800 people, in addition to having submitted the population with blockages to access to the access of goods or drug pressing humanitarian crisis.
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