After 16 months of war between Israel and Hamas, Five Americans are still holding as a hostage in Gaza, but only one of them is alive. Israeli American Edan Alexander, who comes from Tenafly, New Jersey, is the last life of an American hostage in Gaza.
Although he spent most of his life in New Jersey, Alexander was born in Israel for a few months before his parents moved to the US, according to US Jewish Committee (Ajc).
Alexander has grown up in many ways as many American children. He went to Tenafly High School, was a swimmer and loved New York Knicks. Everything that separated him from most American teenagers was his frequent trips to Israel to visit the family and the fact that he spoke at home by Hebrew.
After graduating from high school, Alexander decided to enroll in Israeli defense forces (IDF) and not enrolled in college.
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Edan Alexander, born in Tel Aviv and grew up in New Jersey, Hamas holds a hood in Gaza. (Family forum with hostages)
October 7, Alexander, who served in the IDF Brigade Golani, a pedestrian unit, patrolled near Gaza when Hamas’ attacks on Israel began. The attacks ended with 1,200 Israelites dead and 251 hostageincluding Alexandra.
Yael Alexander, Edan’s mother, recounted the day when he took hostage in a recent interview with AJC’s “area of the substrate.” Yael was in Israel in early October 2023, visited his family and hoped to see Edan. On the morning of October 7, she spoke with Edan, who said he saw “terrible things,” but he assured her that she was safe. Then he took hostages.
Yael says she spent days on the phone and visiting hospitals, trying to figure out what happened to her son after their short phone call on October 7th. Then the IDF informed that her son had taken a hostage.
On November 30, 2024, more than a year after Alexander was captured, Hamas posted a video he spoke in in Hebrew and Arabic. Alexander, like other hostages, forced to make propaganda videos, delivered messages about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the elected President Donald Trump.
A few days after the video output, Adi Alexander, Edan -O’s father, spoke with “Fox & Friends First”, calling the movie “very emotional” and “disturbing”. He said these were the first time they had seen a sign of life from his son since he took hostage.
Yael, Adi and Mika Alexander, Edan Alexander’s family, American Israeli and Israeli Defense Forces Soldier took hostages during October 7, 2023, an attack on Israel of Hamas, posing for a photo during an interview with Reuters in Alexander ‘Home in Tenafly, NJ, December 14, 2024. (Reuters/Stephani Spindel)
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MPs in Israel and the United States have been fighting for his release in the last 16 months, but Alexander has not been involved in the list of people who will be liberated in the first phase of the tribute agreement.
US Ambassador Josh Gottheimer, dn.j., met with Alexander’s parents, who are his voters, just weeks after the graduate study of Tenafly High School was taken hostage.
“No family should ever experience this relentless pain, and I will do everything I can to surely unite Edan with his family,” said Gothenimer Ua A statement of the meeting.
The woman holds a picture of the hostage Edan Alexander during the Global Unity Day and prayer with the forum of Israeli hostages and missing families, who represents the relatives of those trapped by Palestinian militants of Hamas during October 7th. (Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images)
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On Alexandrov 300. Dan in captivity, Gov. Phil MurphyDn.j., he said, “We must reunite with his family and community as soon as possible.”
In addition to Alexander, Hamas holds the bodies of four dead American hostages. On Saturday, Hamas posted six other hostages in exchange for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners as part of his permanent agreement on the termination of fire with Israel. This is still the first phase of the tribute, and it is expected that it will soon be negotiated on the second phase.
