The White House condemned a video posted by Hamas earlier Saturday that showed an Israeli-American hostage visibly emotional and under duress while giving a statement, as the terrorist group continues to hold over 100 hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel.
In a statement, National Security Council spokesman Sean Savett called the video of Israeli-American Edan Alexander “a cruel reminder of Hamas’s terror against citizens of multiple countries, including our own,” and said that a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel is “on the table now.”
“The hostage video released today of American-Israeli citizen Edan Alexander is a cruel reminder of Hamas’s terror against citizens of multiple countries, including our own. We have been in touch with Edan’s family. The war in Gaza would stop tomorrow and the suffering of Gazans would end immediately —…
