The latest: A U.S. official said Trump's Special Envoy for Hostage Response Adam Boehler was traveling to Israel with Alexander's parents to retrieve their son from Hamas' captivity. They're expected to arrive in Israel on Tuesday. "This hostage release ...

JERUSALEM, May 7 (Reuters) - An Israeli official said on Wednesday that 24 hostages ... said in a post on X that the Palestinian militant group Hamas was holding 59 hostages of whom 24 were alive and 35 dead - figures unchanged since before Trump spoke.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Hamas will release the Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander held in Gaza as a part of efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement and allow humanitarian aid to enter the besieged enclave, a senior Hamas official told Reuters on Sunday.

Hamas said Sunday that it had reached an agreement with the United States to release dual American-Israeli national Edan Alexander.