The Hamas Islamist group announced this Sunday in a statement that will release the soldier of Edan Alexander, with double Israeli citizenship, as part of the efforts to “achieve a fire, open border steps and present help and humanitarian aid” in gas.
The armed group, which did not indicate when the military was released, reported this decision after conversations spent in the last days with the US administration, in which he claims to maintain a “very positive” attitude.
“This statement is a sign that he is alive,” said the press adviser to the press of the political bureau Hamas, Taher Al Nono. On April 15, the Casam brigade, the armed hand of the organization, claimed that they had lost contact with the abductors of Edan Alexander after the attack of Israel, and its state was unknown to this day.
Hamas emphasized that he was organized as an organization in order to initiate “immediately intensive negotiations and make serious efforts to achieve the final agreement that ends the war.” Islamists say that they gain access to the independent technical committee to manage a gas strip, “so that the continuity of calm and stability is guaranteed for many years” in this devastated Palestinian territory.
Israel filed a lawsuit with the start of high heat that Hamas was outside the Gaza government and insisted that the group refused to leave the Enclave government.
In December 2024, when it seemed that Hamas and Fath (secular education, with which he supports strong antagonism for decades, and this is the greatest power in the National Palestinian government, the ruler on the western coast) were going to close the creation of the specified committee, Islam accused the secularly of the fact that they freed the proposal.
In addition, Hamas assured this Sunday that the new fire agreement will include the exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners and a long world in the enclave, which allows the reconstruction and end of the blockade of access to the goods that he suffers.
Edan Alexander is the only captive of Hamas with American citizenship of 59 captives who remain in Gaza. According to the Israeli authorities, 24 are still alive, although in recent days the national press has gathered that there are doubts about the true situation of three of them.
Last Saturday, May 12, Hamas released a video, perhaps a script in which Alexander seems to scream and sharply indicates, accusing the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu of the absence of an agreement on his release.
The hostage, abducted for 19 years and now from the age of 21, is a “lonely soldier”, because, as you know, young people who are leaving for Israel are fulfilling mandatory military service, despite the fact that his family does not live in the country, and that he was parked near the GAZ divider on October 7, 2023, the day of the hamas attacks on Israeli.
Israel is preparing for the possible release of a soldier
The Israeli government is preparing for the “possibility” of the liberation of the soldier of Edan Alexander, since the Efe confirmed the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The United States reported the intentions of the Jewish state Hamas after several days of conversations between Islamists and the USA. According to the Israeli statement, the United States guarantee that liberation is a “gesture” with the Americans “without any compensation or conditions.”
The Netanyahu office guarantees that this hamas gesture is aimed at maintaining negotiations of high fire in gas under the frame raised by a messenger in the Middle East of the White House, Steve Witkoff. Israel attributes to Whitkoff the proposal to extend the first stage of the last high fire in gas for several weeks (between 42 and 50 days) and the release of about 10 living prisoners and many other dead during this period.
In recent days, the Israeli press reflected with the possibility of a 90 -day truce and release of at least 13 prisoners of living. The hypothetical expansion of the first stage of the alt -el -fuel, which was agreed in Qatar at the end of the Joe Biden mandate, guarantees that during the Israeli exchange, he retains his military presence in the strip.
In the second stage, the withdrawal of the Israeli troops and the end of the offensive were considered, but negotiations about this never advanced, it did not change in the phase (leaving Gaza at a dead end between the stages) and, finally, Israel broke the truce on March 18 by a wave of bombing.
Witkoff will arrive in Israel on Monday, to the possible liberation of Alexander, according to the Israeli newspaper HaaretsTo which he just stated: “Right now the intention is to return to Edan Alexander home with his family.” Hamas did not indicate when he would release an Israeli-American soldier.
Qatar and Egypt welcome the ad
Countries that have proven themselves as intermediaries in conflict, Egypt and Qatar welcomed the announcement made this Sunday by the Hamas Islamist group that he will free the soldier of Edan Alexander as part of his efforts to achieve a high fire in a strip of gas.
From this announcement, both parties confirmed a joint statement on the continuation of “efforts” with the United States of the mediation in order to “facilitate the suffering of civilians and create appropriate conditions for long -term calm, which leads to the end of this war and the humanitarian catastrophe.”
In addition, in the note, they indicated the urgency of put an end to this war and “avoid great humanitarian consequences and move forward with a sincere desire and conscientiousness to achieve a long world” in the region of the Middle East.
