New Jersey native Idan Alexander is featured in an eerie video posted by Hamas Saturday that instructed the times could be numbered for him and the opposite remaining hostages captured by the fear group greater than a 12 months in the past.
The 20-year-old Israeli soldier was proven within the three-and-a-half minute video, titled “Quickly … Time is Working Out,” introducing himself and saying he’s been a Hamas prisoner for over 420 days, The Jerusalem Put up reported.
He’s later proven masking his face and crying earlier than delivering coerced messages in Hebrew to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
In it, he accuses Netanyahu of “neglecting” Israeli residents and troopers as a substitute of “defending them. He additionally calls on Trump to make use of “the total energy of america to barter for our freedom.”
The Tenafly native was stationed close to Gaza when Hamas terrorists invaded Israel Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 folks and abducting not less than one other 250. Hamas continues to be holding 101 hostages, together with Alexander and 6 different Americans.
The Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board referred to as the video “stunning,” saying in an announcement the video is “particular proof that regardless of all of the rumors — there reside hostages, and they’re struggling significantly.”
“One 12 months after the primary and solely deal, it’s clear to everybody: returning the hostages is barely attainable via a deal,” the assertion stated. “After greater than 420 days of steady abuse, hunger, and darkness, the urgency of bringing residence all 101 hostages can’t be overstated.”
Hamas posted the ominous video after the IDF confirmed killing a terrorist throughout a drone strike within the southern Gaza Strip earlier Saturday.
The terrorist, Ahed Qadih, participated within the Oct. 7 bloodbath in Kibbutz Nir Oz, and was employed by the World Central Kitchen assist group, The Occasions of Israel reported.
Two different staff for celeb chef Jose Andre’s Nobel Prize-nominated group have been additionally killed.
“We’re heartbroken to share {that a} car carrying World Central Kitchen colleagues was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza,” the group stated in an announcement on X.
World Central Kitchen insisted it “had no data” that any of staffers had “alleged ties to the October seventh Hamas assault” and is “pausing operations in Gaza at the moment.”
In associated information, Israel struck a number of targets in Lebanon that it stated have been violating the ceasefire and stated it is going to impose a curfew on Southern Lebanon.
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