{"id":48381,"date":"2025-05-12T18:36:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=48381"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:36:49","slug":"hamas-says-it-will-release-american-israeli-hostage-edan-alexander-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/hamas-says-it-will-release-american-israeli-hostage-edan-alexander-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas Says It Will Release American-Israeli Hostage Edan Alexander on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hamas militant group says it will release the last living American-Israeli hostage held in Gaza on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Hamas did not immediately disclose further details about the release.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas had announced on Sunday that it would free Edan Alexander as a good will gesture for the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from Israeli authorities on the timing of the release. The Israeli prime minister\u2019s office said earlier Monday that the release was expected, without mentioning when. It said it hadn\u2019t committed to a ceasefire as part of the release, but would create a \u201csafe corridor\u201d to allow Alexander&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander, an Israeli soldier, was taken captive on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander\u2019s family, which is based in the US, was on route to Israel, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a group representing the captives&#8217; families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hamas militant group says it will release the last living American-Israeli hostage held in Gaza on Monday. In a statement, Hamas did not immediately disclose further details about the release. Hamas had announced on Sunday that it would free Edan Alexander as a good will gesture for the Trump administration. There was no immediate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48382,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48381\/revisions\/48382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}