Edan Alexander of Teaneck was among the 251 people taken captive on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas gunmen stormed Israel's borders and killed 1,200 people.

American hostage Edan Alexander remained unknown, while the body of a guard assigned to him had been recovered from the site of a recent Israeli strike."We managed to retrieve the body of a martyr who was tasked with securing the prisoner Edan Alexander,

The spokesman for Hamas’s military wing said on Tuesday that the terrorist group had “lost contact” with the captors of hostage Edan Alexander after what he described as “a direct strike on their location,