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The White Space denounced the harrowing hostage video of Edan Alexander spared on Saturday, calling it “a cruel reminder of Hamas’s terror.”
The traumatic hostage photos displays the 20-year-old protecting his face and crying. Alexander, who’s a twin American-Israeli citizen, used to be serving within the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) when he used to be kidnapped by way of Hamas terrorists all through the Oct. 7 assaults.
Within the photos, Alexander seemed gaunt and light. The hostage defined that he were a prisoner for over 420 days and delivered pressured messages to Israeli Top Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President-elect Trump.
On Saturday, Nationwide Safety Council (NSC) spokesman Sean Savett stated that the White Space used to be conscious about the photos and is in contact with Alexander’s society.
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A lady holds a picture of hostage Edan Alexander all through the World Moment of Cohesion and Devotion with Israel’s Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board, which represents the family of the ones taken captive by way of Palestinian Hamas militants all through the Oct. 7, 2023, assault. (Yuri Cortez/AFP by means of Getty Photographs)
“The hostage video released today of American-Israeli citizen Edan Alexander is a cruel reminder of Hamas’s terror against citizens of multiple countries, including our own,” he stated.
“The war in Gaza would stop tomorrow and the suffering of Gazans would end immediately — and would have ended months ago — if Hamas agreed to release the hostages,” Savette added. “It has refused to do so, but as the President said last week, we have a critical opportunity to conclude the deal to release the hostages, stop the war, and surge humanitarian assistance into Gaza.”
Savett additionally promised that President Biden “will continue to work around the clock” to reserve the reduce of the hostages in Gaza.
Edan Alexander, born in Tel Aviv and raised in Unutilized Jersey, is being held hostage by way of Hamas in Gaza. (Hostage Population Discussion board)
The reduce of the photos got here days nearest the IDF and Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed terrorist staff, affirmative to a 60-day cease-fire in Lebanon. Week saying the do business in on Tuesday, Biden said Hamas’ unwillingness to reduce its hostages.
“Far too many civilians in Gaza have suffered far too much,” the president stated from the White Space’s Rose Farmland. “And Hamas has refused, for months and months, to negotiate a good-faith ceasefire and a hostage deal.”
Alexander’s oldsters, Yael and Adi Alexander, seemed on “Fox & Friends” closing while to discuss their son. All over the interview, the Unutilized Jersey citizens described a gathering that they had with Trump.
“I just told [Trump] about Edan, what kind of a Jersey boy he is,” Yael stated. “I told the president that people that [were] rescue[d] in mid-November, saw Edan inside the tunnels, and they told me that he was speaking with them, tell[ing] everyone that he’s an American citizen.”
An Israeli soldier rides in an army automobile close Israel’s border with Lebanon on Wednesday, Nov. 27. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)
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“He tried to calm everyone down and to say, ‘Listen, you’re all civilians. You will be out soon, very fast. Don’t worry about it.’ It gave us a lot of strength to know that Edan was strong on October 7th, and he was comforting others,” she added.
Reuters and Fox Information Virtual’s Bailee Hill contributed to this document.