Hamas: We launch US hostage. Trump rejoices. Netanyahu: we intensify the raids | EUROtoday

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Hamas formally publicizes that it’s going to launch the Israeli-American hostage IDAN Alexander, following the negotiations with the United States in current days and the US president Donald Trump feedback by saying that it is a “monumental news”: “This is a measure taken in good faith towards the United States and due to the efforts of the mediators to put an end to this brutal war. We hope it is the first of the final steps to conclude the conflict. I await that day to celebrate », Trump writes on his social truth.

The reaction of the Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu lasts: the release of an Israeli-American hostage announced by Hamas will not bring the fire to the Gaza strip, nor to the release of the Palestinian prisoners, announces his office. Israel will prepare a safe corridor for the release of the Israeli-American host Edan Alexander from Gaza, but there will be no respite. The Prime Minister’s Office specified that Israel has not made any further commitment or for a ceasefire nor for the liberation of Palestinian prisoners.

The US president’s envoy Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, confirmed to the Associated Press that Hamas agreed to release the last American hostage still alive to Gaza as a gesture of good will towards Trump. The goal, said Witkoff, was to restart the talks for a ceased fire, the release of other hostages and humanitarian aid to Gaza before Israel implements the threatened total control of the territory. Witkoff will be today in the region, in view of the expected release of Edan Alexander. It will be the first release of a hostage through negotiations between Hamas and the United States, which took place largely without the involvement of Israel.

Egypt and Qatar welcomed Hamas’ announcement about the intention of freeing the American-Israeli hostage held in the Gaza Strip. In a joint declaration, the two countries, which are mediating the talks between Hamas and Israel, have defined the announcement “a gesture of goodwill and an encouraging step in the direction of a return to the negotiation desk to succeed in a ceased within the Gaza strip, the discharge of prisoners and prisoners and assure the secure move and with out obstacles of humanitarian assist within the Gaza strip”.