Unlike many families, who blame the Israeli government for not being free from captivity in Gaza, etc. are hesitant to pointing to Alexander fingers. Practical and measured, the father of the previous living American is being taken hostage by Hamas, just wants his son to come home.
Alexander told Associated Press from his New Jersey house on Friday, “I don’t want who had come before, egg or chicken,” Alexander told Associated Press from his New Jersey house on Friday. Nevertheless, with a once -growing ceasefire, with a renewed fight between Israel and Hamas, he wonders if Israel can secure his son’s freedom and expect more about America’s opportunities to do it.
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21-year-old Israeli-American soldier Aidan Alexander, who grew up in the US, is still one of the 59 hostages in Gaza, of which more than half of which are considered dead.
Last week, Hamas said that it would leave the bodies of Aidan and four other hostages if Israel recommended the stopped ceasefire agreement.
A few days later, however, Israel launched rockets in Gaza, broke the two -month -old deal and killed hundreds of Palestinians. No signal has been shown in hostility, until Hamas releases the remaining hostages, Israel on Friday motivated to move deeply in Gaza.
The return to the fight has provoked the debate on the fate of those people in Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has protested extensively to handle the hostage crisis under increasing domestic pressure with domestic pressure. But he also faces demands from his hard-line colleagues, who do not accept any deal less than Hamas’s destruction.
Hope of a father
Adi Alexander said that he feels that Netanyahu wants to bring everyone home, but on his own terms. He questions Netanyahu’s plans, while he believes US President Donald Trump’s message is clear: he focuses on bringing hostage home. Alexander said that he is relying on America to bridge the big difference between Israel and Hamas. His message to Trump’s efforts to free his son and others to his administration: “Just continue this work.”
Many families of hostages say that Trump has more than Netanyahu, credited with the ceasefire to the President. In December, before assuming office, Trump demanded immediate release of hostages, saying that if he was not freed before taking an oath for his second term, there would be “hell to pay”.
The phase of the deal began a week later, and the release of the bodies of 25 Israeli hostages and eight others in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. By the time the conversation continued in the second phase, the ceasefire should have persisted, but Netanyahu entered a concrete conversation.
Instead, he tried to force Hamas to accept a new ceasefire plan, which was placed by our Middle East messenger Steve Witcoff. The plan will require Hamas to promise to instead of a ceasefire expansion of its remaining hostages – the main bargaining chip of the militant group.
Hamas has stated that it would release only one permanent ceasefire and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza to the remaining hostages, as in the original ceasefire agreement arbitrary by the United States, Egypt and Qatar.
America is directly attached to Hamas
As a soldier, Aden would have been released during the second phase of the deal. But Hamas announced this month that after the White House it would leave Aidan that it is engaged in “ongoing conversations and discussions” with the group – different from the main negotiations. This is the first known direct connection between Hamas and the US as the Foreign Department nominated it in 1997 a foreign terrorist organization.
Adi Alexander said that Adam Boheller, who is helping the efforts of the Trump administration to free the hostages, led the separate dialogues as the phase had stopped two. But he said that he did not believe Hamas’s claim that it would leave his son as it came out of the left area and was not considered part of the discussions between the group and Bohrler.
The concerned father said that he speaks almost daily with Vitcoff and Bohaler and understands that the conversation is going on despite the resumption of the fight.
A native of Tanfali, a New Jersey suburb in New York City, went to Israel in 2022 after Aden High School and joined the army. During October 7, 2023, he was abducted with his base, attacking the war -ignited attack, when Hamas killed about 1,200 people in Israel and took 251 others hostage.
Fierce wait
Since the kidnapping of Aidan, there have been very few reports about him.
Hamas released a video of him on the Thanksgiving weekend in November. His family said it was difficult to see that he cried and begs for help, but it was a relief to see that he was alive.
Free hostages have given more news to the family, according to their father. Some said that Aidan had lost a lot of weight. Others said that he was a lawyer for the fellow hostages, stood for the kidnapping of Thai workers and telling his prisoners that the workers were not Israel and they should be freed.
Although he knows that the resumption of the fight meant that it would take him more time to bring his son back, etc. Alexander said that he feels that both sides had become very comfortable with a ceasefire and this was one reason that the stage two never started. He wants the war to end, and hopefully the fight will be limited and will be targeted and will push everyone back to the table.
“Someone, I think this tree had to move to create anarchy, and create anarchy,” he said. “The sole purpose is to go back to the bargaining table to get them out.”
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