Last remaining USA-born hostage may be released
This report says Edan Alexander, the last known USA-born hostage of Hamas, will be released:
Hamas agreed Friday to release Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage in captivity in the Gaza Strip.Let's hope this actually goes through. The man has no doubt been in hell very long.
Alexander, a 21-year-old Israeli-American, will be released along with the bodies of four other hostages, according to a deal offered by mediators. As of Friday, Alexander has been held captive for 525 days, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said.
The bodies that will be released are of dual-national hostages, the Associated Press reported. It's unclear when the transfer will happen, but it comes as talks are ongoing in Qatar to establish the next phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, the first phase of which ended on March 1.
Though he spent most of his life in New Jersey, Alexander was born in Israel a few months before his parents moved to the U.S., according to the American Jewish Committee (AJC).
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