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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Edan Alexander

Crowds gather at the Begin Gate of the IDF's Kirya HQ in Tel Aviv calling for the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. (Dana Reany / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
March 15, 2025, 2:57 pm
Saturday hostage rallies draw thousands as families end 1st week of encampment
Protests take place as Netanyahu convenes the cabinet a day after negotiators returned from Doha; families forum slam meeting as belated: ‘The opportunity is now’
By ToI Staff
US president Donald Trump poses for photos with family members of Hamas hostage Edan Alexander, after visiting the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in New York, October 7, 2024. (AP Photo/ Yuki Iwamura)
March 9, 2025, 6:11 pm
US-Hamas talks focused on last living American hostage, Edan Alexander, group says
Political adviser to terror group’s leader says Hamas not opposed to releasing soldier; Hamas spokesman rejects extension of original deal’s first phase
By Agencies, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Adam Boehler speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
March 6, 2025, 4:57 pm
US talks with Hamas said to hit snag after media leak; PM unhappy they’re taking place
Negotiations largely focused on securing release of hostages with American citizenship, but US has also reportedly proposed 60-day ceasefire in exchange for release of 10 hostages
By Jacob Magid
A group of released hostages meets US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on March 5, 2025. (White House/X)
March 6, 2025, 2:49 am
Trump tells ‘sick and twisted’ Hamas to free all hostages now ‘or it is over for you’
US president hosts 8 released hostages in Oval Office, promises to get the rest out, then issues ‘last warning’ to Hamas, tells its leaders to leave Gaza, says ‘People of Gaza’ who hold hostages ‘are DEAD’
By Jacob Magid
US President Donald Trump speaks alongside former hostage Noa Argamani (left) and hostage envoy Adam Boehler (right) during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Angela Weiss / AFP)
March 5, 2025, 8:34 pm
In 1st, US holding secret direct talks with Hamas to free American hostages, end war
Trump’s envoy talking directly to the US-designated terror group in Qatar; White House consulted Israel on idea, but not all aspects of talks
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Yael Alexander, mother of hostage Edan Alexander, speaks to The Times of Israel on February 23, 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
February 26, 2025, 10:32 am
‘A bigger fight than anything imagined’: Edan Alexander’s mom battles for hostage son
Yael Alexander, mother of soldier with dual US-Israeli citizenship, lives between realities of Israel, their New Jersey home and DC: ‘Since October 7, I feel like I’m on the edge of falling’
By Jessica Steinberg
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