Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said Tuesday that, following an Israeli airstrike, it lost contact with a group guarding Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old Israeli soldier with American citizenship who was captured during Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel.
“We announce that we have lost contact with the team guarding soldier Edan Alexander following a direct Israeli bombardment targeting their location. We are still trying to reach them,” said Qassam spokesman Abu Obeida.
“It seems that the occupation army is deliberately trying to kill him and hence relieve themselves from the pressure caused by the dual-citizen prisoners in order to continue its genocide against our people,” Obeida added.
Alexander grew up in New Jersey and moved to Israel to join the IDF after high school. He is believed to be the only surviving Israeli hostage in Gaza with Israeli citizenship. Hamas also has the bodies of four dual US-Israeli citizens.
The Trump administration was briefly engaged in direct negotiations with Hamas to reach a deal that would free Alexander. The effort was opposed by Israel, and US officials believe that Israeli officials leaked information about the negotiations to the media to derail them.
Family members of Israeli hostages held in Gaza strongly opposed Israel resuming its massive bombing campaign on March 18 since it put the captives in danger. Israeli strikes have previously killed Israeli hostages, and reporting from 972 Magazine recently revealed that the IDF dropped massive 2,000-pound bombs on areas where intelligence suggested Israeli captives could have been located.
Every death in Gaza is on Hamas, who initiated this mess and could stop it at any time in the last 18 months. It is all on Hamas.
The world body should demand nothing less than for the terrorist group to lay down their arms and release all the hostages. If Hamas is allowed to stay, the cycle of violence will continue, as Hamas has promised that there will be more October 7's.
“The world body should demand nothing less than for both terrorists group to lay down their arms and release all the hostages; and for the larger and more powerful terrorist group to withdraw from all territories outside its borders preparatory to the world body sponsoring/supervising free elections in the state of Palestine and staffing the international city of Jerusalem with a multi-national peacekeeping force.”
Fixed, no charge.
There were no Israeli settlements in the West Bank or Gaza for the first twenty years of Israel's existence, until the 1967 war when Israel was attacked on all sides, but it was not about settlements.
Israelis removed themselves and all the settlements from Gaza in 2005 and it appeased no one. Within a few weeks of every last Israeli removing themselves, Hamas rockets began to down on Israel. Lesson learned!
The Talibanization of Gaza. In 2007, about 3,000 Gazans were Christian, out of the total population of 1.5 million. By 2011, the Christian population of Gaza Strip was less than 1,400. They are not even allowed to wear a crucifix in public. Today there are over two million Muslims in Gaza. How many Christians are left?
And none of that changes the fact that Israel has used tactics that are terroristic in nature. You can spew any irrelevant shit you want, and it always will come back to Israel acting like barbarians. It's been front and center for 18 months running.
The Zionist- Israelis are Barbarians. There many courageous Israelis who do oppose the Zionist Barbarians.
And I am sorry to say what he's saying are lies.
1. Use of "Talibanization" is a slur against Afghans. Do you notice no one talks about the Taliban anymore? They are busy and quietly building their country. Not even antiwar.com will bring them up until something happens and then they can say how bad they are.
2. No settlements? Israel itself is one big settlement. What difference does it make whether they built it in 1948 or 1967?
3. Leaving Gaza was tactical in order to eat up the west bank. And they make it sound that they left like good little boys. They blockaded the place. Of course resistance was to ensue.
4. The Christian community did not leave Gaza because of Hamas. They left because of the Israeli blockade. the fact that so many of them left indicates that as a minority they were well connected with other Christians that they could leave. Most Gazans couldn't leave because it was meant to be a prison.
5. Have him show proof christians aren't allowed to wear a crucifix in public.
Look at the video I produced above as a reply. it's only a minute.
A quick Bing search says that Antiwar.com mentioned the Taliban as recently as day before yesterday. We’re mainly a site about US foreign policy, so it’s not like we’re going to catalog every act or statement from a small regime, halfway around the world, that’s no longer at war with the US for the moment.
ok, but we "owned" that place for 20 years. We only hear about Afghanistan if something bad is happening. Almost never the good. Having said that, your point is well taken.
I didn't want to bother with whether what he said was true or not. He keeps trying to justify Israel's unbelievable brutality. Whether he does it with lies or irrelevant bullshit doesn't really matter. It's easier for me to just say it's "irrelevant bullshit". That being said, I agree with everything you said.
And I know you know the reality. It was kind of a default so that those reading later will not be exposed to the propaganda.
Maybe you are really an ignoramus and you just don't know better.
@peepsqueek, to show your integrity, correct your statement or show proof for what you say. Christians have been freely allowed to worship and show expressions of their faith in Gaza under Hamas rule. Here is the evidence in a one minute video I produced long before Oct. 7th. 1 min
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Peepee and integrity?…
Aw c’mon, give us a break!
Lol. I know, I know… but maybe?
Watch him claim that Hamas killed Jesus next.
Ouch!!! That hurts. Because you know who Christians claim killed Christ (peace be upon him)?
The Quran actually absolves them from the allegation.
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Lemme guess. OJ Simpson. He got blamed for EVERYTHING.
Yeah okay he did that second thing with the memorabilia in Vegas, but I don’t believe he did that first thing to that nice lady & her gentleman-friend.
That said, I don’t believe that ‘Jesus H. Christ’ actually existed as written & described. And I do believe that the character of Jesus met basically NONE of the criteria that Judaism & the Old Testament laid out for the ‘Messiah’.
So to that end, the Christians may as well claim Grendel, Enki, or Bast killed Christ. With the Wrench, in the Billiards Room.
Yeah, “allegation”… pfft
LOL. The Christians accuse our cousins. However, the Quran says "They did not kill him nor did they crucify him…. of a surety they killed him not…. "
Yeah technically.
And technically the Muslims weren’t around to see it all go down.
سَلام
Different Christians believe different things.
Christians who read and believe the biblical account know that the Romans killed Jesus in the manner reserved to the Romans and reserved for the crime of rebellion against Roman rule (which he engaged in, culminating in his entrance to Jerusalem as messiah, the prophesied Davidic king of the Jews). It wasn’t until the heretic Paul Romanized/Helenized/paganized his memory that he became anything but a Jewish figure.
Different Christians believe different things.
Christians who read and believe the biblical account know that the Romans killed Jesus in the manner reserved to the Romans and reserved for the crime of rebellion against Roman rule (which he engaged in, culminating in his entrance to Jerusalem as messiah, the prophesied Davidic king of the Jews). It wasn’t until the heretic Paul Romanized/Helenized/paganized his memory that he became anything but a Jewish figure.
Thomas, what world body?
There is the UN, but the US vetoes the slightest objection against crimes of genocide of the Palestinian people.
It does not matter how brutal the massacres are, including starvation of BABIES and AMPUTATIONS of even children without anesthetics, that is what the civilized Zionist with American and German consent and funding do.
Hamas is NOT a terrorist organization regardless of what the war criminals in Washington say.
It takes courage to be honest and call them PARTISANS, real justified legal RESISTANCE fighting for their OWN HUMAN RIGHTS against mass killers the real WAR CRIMINALS.
No, it doesn’t take courage. It just takes refusal to acknowledge fact and reality.
I am retired, so not much courage required. But younger people supporting families need their jobs, it takes more courage and the ability to suffer the consequences now -a-days.
Indirectly you call me a liar, but I forgive you.
I don’t assume you’re lying. Delusion is a much more plausible explanation than dishonesty.
Why stop there?
everyone killed in Sudan? It's the fault of Hamas for inspiring such violence
everyone killed in Ukraine? Hamas again for forcing us to divert munitions to Israel
The Lindberg baby? I am 1000% certain he was abducted and murdered by Hamas
stub your toe? Hamas put that rock there. Hit a pothole? Hamas strikes again! Hailstorm damaged your windows? Curse Hamas and their weather dominator!
As of early 2025, an estimated 122.6 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced from their homes, including refugees and internally displaced persons, according to the Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Why is Gaza your primary concern when Syria, Sudan, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Yemen, the Ukraine, and a dozen other Countries have massive forced displacement? Hamas initiated this action and could stop it at any time
There are nine African countries with more than 1 million displaced account for more than 90 percent of the total forcibly displaced population in Africa: Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Somalia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Sudan.
Ah, since there are many millions of displaced people in the world, that justifies Israel barbaric ongoing slaughter. Sure, why not. /s
Have you any clue why so many people in those places are being displaced? The USA and Israel have a lot to do with those displacements.
Doesn't he know that regime change, forever wars and chaos is on purpose for Israel. And he has the nerve to feign why so many refugees????
Why does all that excuse what Israeli- Zionists do to Palestinians and their own people? Hamas is a civilian resistance fighting their oppressors, two nuclear powers, all for their basic human rights.
What is the excuse of two so-called civilized nations to massacre the unarmed Palestinians, starting a slow-motion genocide way back in 1948?
I hate to say it, but it is true, the Zionists, and Netanyahu, make the the Nazis pale, their sadism and brutality is unbelievable.
What have the Palestinians done to the Israelis and Americans to justify what they do?
Gaza is a concern of mine. Ukraine, Yemen, Venezuela, Afghanistan, and Syria are other concerns of mine.
Mostly because these conflicts in those counties are partially to mostly caused by my country, the US.
And in the case of Gaza, it's leading to censorship of speech and possibly a US war with Iran. The Gaza conflict is also a contributing factor to the conflict in Yemen.
I don't like what is happening in Africa, but the US isn't directly involved like it is in those other cases.
There's the Whataboutism distraction from the topic !
Wow, if you aren't ducking my simple three Yes-or-No questions, you're deflecting from the evident guilt of the Apartheid State of Israel.
Answer my questions. I Block habitual liars and dishonest interlocutors, and I'd like the chance to help you apply Logic and Reason. But I need your answers to know if you are worth my, or anyone's, time and effort.
"Hamas : The Scapegoat & Gremlin of the Gaps For S**t ASI Apologists Since Forever"
LOLLLLL!
The Lindberg baby? I am 1000% certain he was abducted and murdered by Hamas
stub your toe? Hamas put that rock there. Hit a pothole? Hamas strikes again! Hailstorm damaged your windows? Curse Hamas and their weather dominator!
Every death in Gaza is on US.
Every death in Gaza is on everyone that supports Israeli Genocide…!
And Israel could have prevented tens of thousands of those deaths and chose instead to be the barbarians they claim Hamas to be. Only they did it with state of the art weaponry from their genocide enabler, the US. That is fact. You can repeat yourself until you're blue in the face and NOTHING will change that fact.
But if jakesqeek keeps denying, deflecting, ignoring, parroting, copy-pasting AI word-salads, they can act like facts & evidence don't exist.
I am SO nearly done with them; 2-cheek-squeak can't & won't answer three simple Yes/No questions.
Let me count the ways you're wrong AND an idiot. But first – you're still cowardly running away from accountability.
1. Do you care if what you believe is true ?
2. Is it possible you could be wrong about any position you hold, on any topic ?
3. If the facts clearly demonstrated that you held an incorrect position, would you change your opinion to reflect the reality ?
Great questions, but you are asking just another troll.
It takes introspection to answer you, trolls don't have it.
It’s something of a litmus test, one that exposes their nature either way. They answer No and there’s no point in talking to them. They answer Yes and this can subsequently be proven a lie if they (continue to) act irrationally.
Sadly, what trolls and apologists lack is a sense of personal honor & accountability. They’re trying to be the worst, not the best, they can be.
And AntiWar approves the posts, no matter how evil and basically stupid and incoherent they are.
For which you should be grateful.
LOLLLLL! Because he has done it to me on a couple of occasions, I knew Tom was going to chime in and defend freedom of speech. @unclesapien:disqus@renatelittlejohn:disqus
I am, I did not complain, I do respect free speech and open constructive debate. And so do you, and debates can be salty.
Which is fine; nobody makes the genocide-champions, ASI apologists, pro-fascists, and GISS Army loyalists look dumber, than their own words in print on-screen do.
As long as there are Zionist Israelis there will be no peace.
Mission accomplished by the Israeli supremacists.
Average Israelis aren’t important either. They are in the way of imperialist expansion. They are disposable. The sooner they know, the better.
That would seem to be the faith of the remaining live hostages as well…!
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In his last message from captivity, Alexander hints that he believes Netanyahu would rather he wind up dead, because the political price of getting him out alive is too high
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Al-Qassam Brigades released a video of captive Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander.
"I truly believe we will return home dead. There is no hope.
Every day I see Netanyahu controls the state like a dictator.
I heard Hamas was ready to release me three weeks ago-but you refused. Everyone lied: the Israeli government, the American administration, the army.
President Trump, I believed you'd succeed in getting me out alive.?"
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1912198391796281641
It is strongly implied, if not flatly stated in the article, Mr. Alexander is "…believed to be the only surviving Israeli hostage in Gaza with Israeli citizenship…" so absent Tel Aviv directly and specifically naming others, there are NO Israeli or Israeli-Americans left in captivity. Thus nobody the ASI actually cares to recover, if they cared such in the first place.
With verified confirmation of Mr. Alexander's death, and without an accurate list provided by Tel Aviv of who exactly the ASI believes is still alive in captivity, I am going to personally declare the ASI's "recover the hostages of Oct 7th" casus belli (as flimsy as f**k as it was from the start) now closed & invalid from that point on as ongoing justification.
"He is believed to be the only surviving Israeli hostage in Gaza with Israeli citizenship."
Ah, okay – so he's the last hostage the ASI gives a s**t about (and boy-howdy ain't THAT a relative measure).
Given that Hamas holds "bodies of four dual US-Israeli citizens" and those are [Not TRUE Israelis]™, and only Israelis 'actually matter', then if Mr. Alexander is indeed dead and confirmed so, by Tel Aviv and Washington's logic and states premises, the war against Gaza has no reason to continue (no important hostages remain to be set free) and should therefore end.
"He is believed to be the only surviving Israeli hostage in Gaza with Israeli citizenship."
I think this is a typo