Hamas announced this Sunday that he will release the one who believes he is the last American host with Gaza. This is the Israeli-American Edan Alexander, 21, and his departure from the strip would be fruit, according to Washington, of the conversations between Hamas and the United States to reach a high fire, as well as an agreement to allow the entry of humanitarian aid in Gaza.
It was not immediately clear what Hamas gets in exchange for
Steve Witkoff, a special envoy for the Middle East of the Donald Trump administration, confirmed to the NBC chain that he was on the way to Israel to supervise the delivery. “We have that they return it tomorrow. It is the end of a long negotiation in which many people have participated. There is much to thank these people,” Witkoff said Sunday, who said that the family, resident in New York, was “in ecstasy” with the news.
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Since the beginning of the high in fired fire on January 19, Hamas has released 38 hostages. In March, the Israeli army resumed its land and aerial offensive against Gaza. Their authorities promised that they would not stop until the remaining 59 hostages are released and Gaza, “demilitarized.”
Hamas insists that he will release the hostages only as part of an agreement to end war and rejects the demands of deposing weapons. It also demands a complete retreat from Israel de Gaza.
Alexander was highlighted as a soldier with 250 military at the border with the strip when he was captured by Hamas in the attack of October 7, 2023. His fate has been a priority for Trump since his return to the White House.
The announcement of his liberation arrives on the eve of the first trip of the US president to the Middle East in his second term. In the entering week, Trump will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates. He is not in his plans to make a scale in Israel.
Hamas still retains more than 20 hostages that are believed to remain alive, in addition to 30 bodies, according to Israeli authorities. Among the latter, the bodies of four American citizens are listed.
It is not the first time that Alexander’s liberation is taken for granted. Hamas promised in March released it along with the bodies of four other hostages with dual nationality. A few weeks later, their leaders excused themselves by saying that they had lost contact with the group that kept him kidnapped due to Israeli bombings.
A third of the territory of Gaza. Since March, he has imposed a blockade to the entry of humanitarian aid. His government has claimed that he plans to expand his offensive on the strip during this May. Israel’s Security Cabinet approved unanimously unprecedented plan to expand the offensive in Gaza in phases until the territories it takes militarily retains and retain militarily.
The project “differs from its predecessors” because it means “from the method of incursions to the conquest of territories and permanence in them,” said Prime Minister Benjamín Netanyahu, defending him, according to Israeli public television.
