For the first time since the launch on Gaza’s Monday or the American-Israeli Edan Alexander’s hostage By the militant group HamasHis family spoke publicly about what his emotional meeting was like and the son spent.
At a press conference on Tuesday from the hospital in Tel Aviv, where his son is recovering, Yael Alexander said that the moment he hugged him “time stopped”, adding: “My beat returned synchronized with his.”
However, she also shared that duration of more than 580 days in captivity, “every minute was a battle between hope and despair.”
She said the meeting was also with the pain of learning that her son faced “daily fear, hunger, lack of water and accumulation of health conditions.”
While he was stopped in underground tunnels, Edan Alexander heard Deafish’s explosions, the kilt of missiles and felt the earth trembling, he said.
Alexanders asks for the launch of the hostages traninals
At the press conference, Yael Alexander said it was important to bring home to the removal’s hostages. The extensive Alexander family held photos of those who were still in captivity.
Yael and her husband, Adi Alexander, thanked President Trump, with whom Edan Alexander spoke on Monday. However, Neinder thanked the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Soon, Edan will be at home in the United States, in New Jersey, seeing his little brother play basketball, meeting with his friends in New Jersey. Now he is 21 years old, and those happy children can also include beer, but building the Fording had a horn throw,” said Adi Alexander.
Edan Alexander takes social networks for the first time
Edan Alexander created on Tuesday his first Instagram post of that moment, titling it, “Home Sweet Home”.
He wore a star of David, a necklace that Steve Witkoff gave him, a special US envoy to the Middle East. It belonged to the late son of Witkoff, Andrew.
The son of Witkoff, Alex, published in X that Edan is “a true warrior and the necklace is a powerful reminder of his strength, survival and pride in his Jewish inheritance.”
It is not clear when Alexander will return to the United States
Alexander grew up in New Jersey before moving to Israel. He was serving in the Israeli army on October 7, 2023, when the assault of Hamas to Israel was kidnapped.
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