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2025-04-13 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Hamas releases propaganda video showing US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander
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[IsraelTimes] Clip is second sign of life from lone soldier since he was taken captive on Oct. 7; his parents say Passover ‘not a holiday of freedom’ until he and the other captives come home
Hamas
 ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
on Saturday evening published a propaganda video showing signs of life from hostage soldier Edan Alexander, as Jews gathered in Israel and across the globe to mark the Passover holiday and its theme of freedom.
The three-minute-long video is not dated, though Alexander states that he has been held for 551 days, indicating it was filmed very recently.
Alexander, a 21-year-old US citizen, is a lone soldier who was stationed near the 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 ...
Strip on the morning of October 7, 2023, when he was taken captive by Hamas bully boyz along with 250 other hostages. Hamas killed over 1,200 people, mostly civilians, during that attack, which sparked the ongoing war that the Israeli military is fighting against Hamas in Gaza.
It is the second video Hamas published of Alexander. In November, Hamas released the first video of the hostage soldier.
Hamas has previously issued similar videos of hostages it is holding, in what Israel says is deplorable psychological warfare.
Alexander’s family asked Israeli media not to share the latest video but authorized the publication of a still image.
"As we begin the holiday evening in the USA, our family in Israel is preparing to sit around the Seder table," Alexander’s relatives said in a statement released by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. "Our Edan, a lone soldier who immigrated to Israel and enlisted in the Golani Brigade to defend the country and its citizens, is still being held captive by Hamas."
"So when you sit down to mark Passover, remember that this is not a holiday of freedom as long as Edan and the other 58 hostages are not home."
Born in Tel Aviv, Alexander grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey. He returned to Israel to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces after graduating from high school in 2022.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the premier phoned Alexander’s parents Yael and Adi after "the cruel propaganda video" of their son was published.
"The prime minister told the family he empathizes with their pain and updated that currently tremendous efforts are taking place to return Edan and the rest of the hostages," said a statement from Netanyahu’s office.
The release of the video came after a recent US push to secure Alexander’s release, including both unprecedented direct talks with Hamas and indirect negotiations by mediators, failed to bear fruit. Israel has since resumed fighting in Gaza, ending the de facto truce that prevailed after the end of the first phase of the ceasefire and hostage release deal that was signed in January.
The direct talks with Hamas angered Israel, and news of them was leaked the same day US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
addressed a joint session of Congress. According to a report this week in The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, the administration was hoping to reach a deal to free Alexander before Trump’s speech.
Beyond the problematic aspect of breaking with the established American policy of not dealing directly with Hamas, which the US proscribes as a terror group, the notion of hostages with a specific dual nationality receiving preferential treatment would be highly problematic in Israel.
Egypt, which along with 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...
and the US is serving as a mediator, is now pushing a new proposal that would see eight living hostages released as part of a restored ceasefire.
Including Alexander, there are believed to be 24 living hostages still in Gaza, as well as 35 confirmed by Israel to be dead.
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