The release of a Hamas video showing 20-year-old American hostage Edan Alexander is sparking new calls for Israel and Hamas to reach a ceasefire in Gaza. NBC News' Hala Gorani reports from Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV — An Israeli American soldier who was thought to have been captured alive by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack was actually killed that day and his body taken into the Gaza Strip, Israel’s military said Monday. Omer Neutra, a 21-year-old New York native, who served as a tank platoon commander after emigrating to Israel, was killed in battle, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on X, as he paid tribute.
“We share in the family’s heavy grief,” he said in a statement, adding, “We will continue to act resolutely and tirelessly until we return all of our captives — the living and the dead.” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who met with Neutra’s parents in March, also offered condolences to his family. “We pray that his body can be returned to his family who have been speaking out for him & all hostages since that horrific day,” she said in a post on X.
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