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Monday, May 12, 2025
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Monday, May 12, 2025
Military reportedly readying to receive Alexander later today
People wave Israeli flags on a road near Kibbutz Re'im, southern Israel, Feb. 20, 2025, ahead of the return by Hamas of the bodies of four Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israeli military officials are beginning preparations to receive hostage Edan Alexander from Hamas captivity sometime today, an unnamed defense source says in a statement carried by several Hebrew-language news outlets.
The preparations include readying a building at the Israel Defense Force’s Re’im base where Alexander will first be received, Channel 12 news reports.
The base has been used in the past as a private space for freed hostages to be checked out and sometimes reunited with their families before the longer journey to an Israeli hospital, where they generally stayed for several days or longer as they began their recoveries.
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