Journalist Trey Yingst has reported that the Hamas group holding US citizen Edan Alexander lost contact with the terror group's central commanders.
"Hamas spokesman Abu Obaida says that contact with the group holding American citizen Edan Alexander was lost following an Israeli airstrike," Yingst tweeted.
He noted that "no additional evidence or information was provided" for the claim adding, "In the past, Hamas has lied about the conditions of hostages they kidnapped."
In the past, Hamas lied several times about the condition of hostages: In late 2023, the terror group claimed that Chana Katzir was killed in an Israeli airstrike. She was later released in the November 2023 deal.
Later, Hamas claimed that Shiri Bibas and her young sons Ariel (4) and Kfir (10 months) were killed in an Israeli airstrike. After their bodies were returned to Israel in February 2025, forensic investigators determined that the three were killed no more than a few weeks after the start of the war, and were dead by the November 2023 deal. It was also determined that all three had been killed in cold blood, by the terrorists using their bare hands - not in an airstrike.