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2025-03-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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US-Hamas talks focused on last living American hostage, Edan Alexander, group says
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[IsraelTime] Political adviser to terror group’s leader says Hamas not opposed to releasing soldier; Hamas spokesman rejects extension of original deal’s first phase
Meetings between Hamas
 ..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
leaders and US hostage negotiator Adam Boehler in recent days have focused on the release of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander, a senior Hamas official told Rooters on Sunday.
"Several meetings have already taken place in Doha, focusing on releasing one of the dual-nationality prisoners. We have dealt positively and flexibly, in a way that serves the interests of the Paleostinian people," said Taher Nunu, political adviser to the leader of the terror group, confirming that talks took place over the past week.
The US-Hamas discussions broke with a decades-old policy by Washington against negotiating with groups that the US has designated terrorist organizations. Hamas has been proscribed as such since 1997.
Nunu said the sides had also discussed how to see through the implementation of the phased agreement with Israel that went into effect on January 19.
"We informed the American delegation that we don’t oppose the release of the prisoner within the framework of these talks," Nunu told Rooters.
Alexander, a 21-year-old who grew up in New Jersey and then returned to Israel, where he was born, to serve in the IDF, is believed to be the last living American hostage held by Hamas in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
, though the bodies of several Americans are also believed held in the Strip.
In total there are 24 presumed-living hostages and 35 bodies held by Hamas or its allies in Gaza.
US President Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
’s special envoy Steve Witkoff told news hounds at the White House last week that gaining Alexander’s release was a "top priority for us."
Nunu praised what he described as the "important role" played by Witkoff — who is expected to travel to Doha this week, according to Axios — in reaching the January 19 ceasefire agreement that halted the fighting in Gaza.
"We hope that he (Witkoff) will work to succeed in the negotiation of the second phase," Nunu said.
In remarks on Sunday defending the US-Hamas talks, Trump’s hostage envoy Boehler said, "I want to note the American hostages that are there. One in particular that’s alive. Adi [sic] Alexander and four dead bodies of Americans. There have been about 50 killed, and that is just not acceptable."
HAMAS SPOKESMAN: NO EXTENSION OF PHASE ONE
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do...
in an interview aired by al Jazeera early Sunday morning, Hamas front man Hazem Qassem said the terror group "does not mind the release of Israeli prisoners with American citizenship," but added that this will only happen "within a comprehensive agreement."
Qassem said Hamas is sticking to its conditions for a second phase to the ceasefire with Israel — a hostage-prisoner exchange, Israel’s complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and a guarantee of no return to war — stressing that Hamas "rejects extending the first stage of the ceasefire agreement."
Qassem said he does not "rule out the possibility of meeting with representatives of the US administration."
"Hamas understands that Washington has the ability to pressure" Israel on these conditions, he added.
ISRAEL SENDING DELEGATION TO QATAR FOR TALKS
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced late Saturday that he would send a delegation to Doha on Monday in an attempt to move negotiations forward.
The delegation will be headed by the government’s hostage point man Gal Hirsch, and senior Shin Bet official "M.," an Israeli official told The Times of Israel. Netanyahu’s political adviser Ophir Falk will also join the delegation. The delegation that flew to Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
in February was made up of the same officials.
M. is flying in place of the head of the security agency, Ronen Bar, whom Netanyahu removed from his negotiating role and is reportedly seeking to fire.
Trump envoy says he doesn’t care about Israeli criticism of talks with Hamas
[IsraelTimes] US hostage envoy Adam Boehler says he doesn’t “really care” about Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer’s criticism of his direct talks with Hamas, while referring to Palestinian prisoners as “hostages.”
“I don’t really care about that that much — no offense to Dermer,” Boehler says during an interview with Israel’s Channel 13, appearing to escalate a scuffle that was first held privately between the two on Tuesday hours after Israel learned of the US hostage envoy’s direct talks with Hamas.
“If it was a big deal every time Dermer got a little bit upset… Ron might have a lot of big deals every day,” Boehler says. “I love Ron. We’ll work together again. It was great. I take no offense because he was doing what he was supposed to do.”
“I don’t mean to injure Ron or anyone else… Dermer runs a country with Bibi that is on its own, where they are exchanging massive amounts of hostages for one person,” Boehler says.
“And I will say, it’s a lot of hostages. We wouldn’t do that deal in the United States,” Boehler adds, revealing his views on the trades that Israel has been making with Hamas.
“I respect and understand his position. However, we also have our own interests in the US, and I believe and hope that some of those interactions [with Hamas] can speed things up,” he adds.
The senior American official, who has repeatedly referred to Israeli hostages as “prisoners,” appears to now be using the term “hostages” to describe Palestinian prisoners, adopting rhetoric common with Hamas but considered offensive in Israel and among many Americans. Hamas has referred to civilians kidnapped on October 7, including children and the elderly, as prisoners who were “arrested.”
Boehler tells i24News in a separate interview that he was the one who reached out to Hamas to hold direct talks earlier this year, not the other way around.
“We don’t think meeting somebody is a concession,” he adds.
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