In another report, Hamas said it had lost contact with militants guarding Edan Alexander. Israel called the video 'absolute depravity.'

The armed wing of Hamas said on Tuesday it had lost contact with a group of militants 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,

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,