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Israeli-American Edan Alexander hugs his parents after 19 months in Hamas custody | Watch video

Israeli-American Edan Alexander hugs his parents after 19 months in Hamas custody | Watch video

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May 13, 2025 01:25 AM IST Edan Alexander was reportedly serving as part of the Israel Defense Forces’ Golani Brigade 51st Division near the Gaza Strip when he was abducted by Hamas Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander reunited with his family in Israel as he was released by the Palestinian militant group Hamas after more than 580 days under their custody. Israelis celebrate the release of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Monday, May 12, 2025. Hamas freed Alexander on Monday in a hastily announced move ahead of US President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East.(Bloomberg) The Israeli army has said Alexander was heading to a Tel Aviv hospital to undergo medical examination. “The returning hostage, IDF (army) soldier Edan Alexander, accompanied by members of his family, is currently making his way on an Israeli Air Force helicopter to the hospital, where he will be reunited with other members of his family and will receive medical treatment,” the military said in a statement. Alexander’s extended family members, wearing shirts emblazoned with his …

Hamas to release Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander after 580+ days | World News

Hamas to release Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander after 580+ days | World News

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May 12, 2025 02:29 AM IST Edan Alexander was reportedly serving as part of the Israel Defense Forces’ Golani Brigade 51st Division near the Gaza Strip Palestinian militant group Hamas on Sunday announced that it will release Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old soldier, after more than 580 days of captivity. The young man is believed to be the last surviving American hostage. This handout picture provided by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters shows an image grab from a video released by Hamas’s armed wing Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades on April 12, 2025, of Israeli hostage Edan Alexander, held in the Gaza Strip since the October 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel.(AFP file) A senior Hamas official told Reuters that the release would likely happen on Tuesday. The release is part of efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement and allow humanitarian aid to enter the war-ravaged Gaza strip. An unnamed source also said that direct four-way talks were held between officials from the U.S., Qatar, Egypt and Hamas to secure Alexander’s release. Exiled Gaza …

Hamas says open to 5-year Gaza truce, one-time hostages release | World News

Hamas says open to 5-year Gaza truce, one-time hostages release | World News

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Hamas is open to an agreement to end the war in Gaza that would see all hostages released and secure a five-year truce, an official said Saturday as the group’s negotiators held talks with mediators. Palestinians assess the damage inside the house of the Al-Khour family after it wa hit by an Israeli strike in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood on April 26, 2025.(AFP) A Hamas delegation was in Cairo discussing with Egyptian mediators ways out of the 18-month war, while, on the ground, rescuers said Israeli strikes killed at least 35 people. Nearly eight weeks into an Israeli aid blockade, the United Nations says food and medical supplies are running out. The Hamas official, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said the Palestinian militant group “is ready for an exchange of prisoners in a single batch and a truce for five years”. The latest bid to seal a ceasefire follows an Israeli proposal which Hamas had rejected earlier this month as “partial”, calling instead for a “comprehensive” agreement to halt the war ignited by …

“Hostages Will Return in Coffins…” Hamas Blames Israel for “Losing Contact” With US Hostage in Gaza

“Hostages Will Return in Coffins…” Hamas Blames Israel for “Losing Contact” With US Hostage in Gaza

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Last Updated:April 16, 2025, 13:17 IST Crux India The armed wing of Hamas claimed to have lost contact with a group of militants holding Israeli American hostage Edan Alexander. Al-Qassam Brigades said on April 14 that the contact was lost after the IDF* attacked the place where the militants were holding Alexander. Hamas also warned Israeli hostages’ families that their “children will return in black coffins with their bodies torn apart from shrapnel from your army”The 21-year-old New Jersey native is believed to be the last living American hostage held by Hamas in Gaza. In March, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff told reporters that gaining the release of Alexander was a “top priority for us”Earlier, on April 12, Hamas released a video purportedly showing Alexander, who was captured by Palestinian militants on October 7, 2023.Meanwhile, a group representing Israeli hostage families said Alexander was among up to 10 hostages who could be released if a new ceasefire was reached. n18oc_world n18oc_crux0:00 INTRODUCTION2:02 IDF CHIEF WARNS RESERVISTS AGAINST “POLITICAL DISPUTES”4:37 US TO ARM …

Netanyahu calls for hostages to be released during Gaza visit | World News

Netanyahu calls for hostages to be released during Gaza visit | World News

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited northern Gaza on Tuesday, accompanied by the country’s defense minister, head of the military and other senior officials, his office said. A statement released by the prime minister’s office said Netanyahu received a security briefing in northern Gaza on the military’s effort to free Israeli hostages and to defeat Hamas. “We insist that our hostages be released and we insist on achieving all of our objectives for the war, and are doing so thanks to our heroic fighters,” Netanyahu’s office cited the prime minister as saying during a meeting with soldiers. Story continues below this ad The statement did not specify where in northern Gaza Netanyahu visited or mention Hamas’ claim on Tuesday that it had lost contact with those guarding Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander after the military purportedly bombed their location. The Palestinian militant group still holds 59 hostages. Almost 200 hostages have been released by Hamas or rescued by the Israeli military over the course of the war, now in its 18th month. Disclaimer: We do not …

‘That’s True Friendship’: Israeli Minister Hails PM Modi’s Call After October 7 Attacks, Lists 3 Goals For Gaza

‘That’s True Friendship’: Israeli Minister Hails PM Modi’s Call After October 7 Attacks, Lists 3 Goals For Gaza

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Last Updated:April 08, 2025, 17:06 IST Rising Bharat Summit: “On October 7, 2023, when the attacks from Gaza occurred…one of the first world leaders who called Netanyahu was the PM of India, Narendra Modi. He offered any help that Israel needed. It is true friendship when it comes on time,” says…Read More Avi Dichter said Israel has three goals in Gaza. At the Rising Bharat Summit 2025, Abraham Moshe ‘Avi’ Dichter, an Israeli politician currently serving as the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu after the October 7, 2023 attacks. “On October 7, 2023, when the horrible attacks from Gaza occurred and Israelis were tortured, killed, raped, kidnapped, one of the first world leaders who called the PM of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu was the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. He offered any help that Israel needed. That’s true friendship…when it comes on time,” said Dichter. The session was part of CNN-News18’s Rising Bharat Summit 2025 in New Delhi on April 8-9 which will …

Hamas fires rockets at Israeli cities | World News

Hamas fires rockets at Israeli cities | World News

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Palestinian militant group Hamas said it fired a barrage of rockets at cities in Israel’s south on Sunday in response to Israeli “massacres” of civilians in Gaza. Israel’s military said about ten projectiles were fired, but most successfully intercepted. Israel’s Channel 12 reported a direct hit in the southern city of Ashkelon. Israeli emergency services said they were treating one person for shrapnel injuries and teams were en route to locations of fallen rockets. Smashed car windows and debris lay strewn on a city street, videos disseminated by Israeli emergency services showed. Story continues below this ad The first phase of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into force on January 19 after 15 months of war and involved a halt to fighting, the release of some of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas, and the freeing of some Palestinian prisoners. However, Israel said on March 19 that its forces resumed ground operations in the central and southern Gaza Strip. Both parties blamed one another for a stalemate in the ceasefire talks. More than …

New York Doctor’s “Long Live Hamas” Social Media Post Lands Her In Trouble

New York Doctor’s “Long Live Hamas” Social Media Post Lands Her In Trouble

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A New York City doctor has been fired after posting “Long Live Hamas & Hezbollah” online and making statements denying atrocities by the militant groups. Lila Abassi, an assistant professor of medicine at Mount Sinai’s Upper East Side hospital, was let go earlier this month after a probe into her controversial social media activity, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to The NY Post. Hamas is a Palestinian militant group that controls Gaza, while Hezbollah is an Iran-backed militant group based in Lebanon. Both are labelled terrorist organisations by the US, Israel, and others. In a series of posts, Ms Abassi, 46, allegedly praised Hamas as “noble resistance and freedom fighters,” called the Israeli army a “plague,” accused Israel of “slaughtering babies,” and dismissed reports of sexual violence during the October 7, 2023. “Please show me actual rape video,” she wrote in a Facebook doctors’ group, using the pseudonym “Kluver Bucy,” a reference to a rare neurological disorder. She also claimed Israel had “massacr[ed] more people on 10/7 than [were] killed by Hamas.” Abassi is a 2011 graduate …

Gaza Streets Fill With “Hamas Out” Slogans As War Frustrates Palestinians

Gaza Streets Fill With “Hamas Out” Slogans As War Frustrates Palestinians

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Gaza: Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets in northern Gaza to take part in the largest anti-Hamas protest since the war with Israel began, calling for an end to the ongoing conflict and demanding that the group step down from power. The demonstrations took place in Beit Lahia in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, where the crowd had gathered a week after the Israeli army resumed its intense bombing of Gaza after nearly two months of a truce. Videos and photos shared on social media late on Tuesday showed hundreds of protestors, mostly male, chanted “out, out, out, Hamas out” and “Hamas terrorists” as they carried banners emblazoned with slogans including “Stop the war” and “We want to live in peace”. غزة تنتفض ضد حماس.. مشاهد جديدة لتظاهرات حاشدة في بيت لاهيا للمطالبة بإيقاف الحرب وإنهاء حكم الحركة وخروجها في القطاع#العربية #غزة pic.twitter.com/1vfy8h9FlC — العربية (@AlArabiya) March 25, 2025 Media reports said that masked and armed Hamas militants, some carrying guns and others batons, forcibly dispersed the protesters, assaulting several of them …

Gaza war death toll crosses 50,000 in Palestine as Israel intensifies airstrikes | World News

Gaza war death toll crosses 50,000 in Palestine as Israel intensifies airstrikes | World News

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More than 50,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the territory’s Health Ministry said Sunday, as new Israeli airstrikes killed at least 26 Palestinians overnight. Smoke rises from a burning building in North Gaza, as seen from the Israel-Gaza border, March 23, 2025. (REUTERS) The military claimed to have “eliminated” dozens of militants since Israel ended a ceasefire last week with a surprise wave of strikes that killed hundreds of people. Israel’s unrest over the war and political issues grew, with anger at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as his government voted to express no confidence in the attorney general, seen by many as a check on the power of his coalition. “I’m worried for the future of this country. And I think it has to stop. We have to change direction,” said Avital Halperin, one of hundreds of protesters outside Netanyahu’s office. Police said three were arrested. ‘Displacement under fire’ Israel’s military ordered thousands of Palestinians to leave the heavily destroyed Tel al-Sultan neighborhood in the southern …