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The armed wing of Hamas said on Tuesday it had lost contact with a group holding Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander in the Gaza Strip.
Abu Ubaida, the armed wing's spokesperson, said on the Telegram that it lost contact after the Israeli army attacked the place where the militants were holding Alexander, who is a New Jersey native and a 21-year-old soldier in the Israeli army.
Abu Ubaida did not say where in Gaza Alexander was purportedly held. The armed wing later released a video warning hostages families that their "children will return in black coffins with their bodies torn apart from shrapnel from your army".
Hamas has previously blamed Israel for the deaths of hostages held in Gaza, including as a direct result of military operations, while also acknowledging on at least one occasion that a hostage was killed by a guard.
It said the guard had acted against instructions. There was no immediate response from the Israeli military to a request for comment on the Hamas statement about Alexander. Reuters
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