Hamas Public Propaganda Video showing the American Israeli hostage Edan Alexander

Hamas’ military wing launched a propaganda video on Saturday showing an American Israeli hostage.

It was the first video shared in months.

The video without date, published in the Segura Telegram messaging service, sample of 20 years Edan Alexander. The message says that Alexander has been retained Captive of Hamas For more than 420 days. If it is true, the video would have been taken last week.

In the video, speaking in a mix of Hebrew and English, Alexander speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying “You have neglected us.”

He also addressed President -elect Donald Trump, asking him to use his “influence and the complete power of the United States to negotiate our freedom.”

In a statement through the headquarters of the missing families and families, Alexander’s mother, Yael Alexander, said her son “Represents all living hostages that cannot make their voices heard, and this voice needs to reverberate and shake everyone! “

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who appears in “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Sunday, described the video as a “cruel barbarism and brutality of Hamas.”

Sullivan said he believes that Hamas is “feeling the pressure” after Hezbolá cut a High fire With Israel last week, and after the top Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar He was killed in October. The National Security Advisor said that Hamas “may be looking again” given the possibility of reaching an agreement to end the fighting and return to the hostages.

“The key actor at this time celebrates the decision on Alto El Fuego is Hamas,” said Sullivan.

Alexander grew up in New Jersey And he was a soldier in the Israeli army when Hamas militants attacked the morning of October 7, 2023. The then 19 -year -old could send a quick message to his mother in the middle of the intense fight around his base near the border of Gaza.

He told him that despite the fact that the shrapnel embedded in his helmet of the explosions, he had managed to reach a protected area. After 7 am, his family lost contact, News reported.

“He told me that things were already becoming dangerous around him. That was the last time I heard my son’s voice. I can’t describe the pain of not knowing where his son is or how he is,” said Yael Alexander said News New York In October.

When A high -week fire last November He brought the release of 105 hostages in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners, some of the released hostages said they had seen Alexander in captivity. Varda Ben Baruch, his grandmother, told the AP that the hostages told him that Alexander kept calm, encouraging them to all be released soon.

Alexander’s father, Adi Alexander, told him “News Mornings” in September who are pressing Israeli and American leaders for a high fire agreement.

“We hope that we are holding on and we come for him,” said Adi Alexander. “You need to survive.”

Adi and Yael Alexander met with President Biden and Trump in Washington earlier this month and begged them to work together to bring all the hostages home in a single agreement, according to the AP.

More than 250 people were kidnapped and 1,200 killed when Hamas militants broke into the border and carried out a bloody attack against the communities of southern Israelis. Israel’s later war against Hamas has since then killed more than 43,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials.

Netanyahu’s office said in a statement on Saturday that he has spoken with Alexander’s family after the launch of the “brutal psychological war video.”

“The prime minister said in the conversation that he felt very good the agony that passed through Edan and the hostages and their families, and promised that Israel is working with determination and in every way to return them home, along with all the hostages that are in the hands of the enemy,” the statement said.

The spokesman for the United States National Security Council, Sean Savett, said the White House has been in contact with the Alexander family. He said in a statement on Saturday that the propaganda video is “a cruel reminder of Hamas’ terror against citizens of multiple countries, including ours.”

“The war in Gaza would stop tomorrow and the suffering of the Gazans would end immediately, and it would have ended months ago, if Hamas agreed to free the hostages,” Savett said. “He has refused to do so, but as the president said last week, we have a critical opportunity to conclude the agreement to free hostages, stop war and increase humanitarian assistance in Gaza. This agreement is on the table now.”

The headquarters of the missing families forum said in a statement that the video is “a definitive proof that despite all rumors, there are living hostages and are suffering a lot.”

“A year after the first and only agreement, it is clear to all: returning to hostages is only possible through an agreement,” said the group. “After more than 420 days of continuous abuse, hunger and darkness, the urgency of bringing home the 101 hostage cannot be exaggerated.”

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