Tel Aviv, May 12, 2025 (AFP) - We're waiting to hug Edan, says grandmother of hostage to be freed from Gaza

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2025-05-12

Among those waiting anxiously Monday for the release of Edan Alexander, the US-Israeli hostage held by Hamas since October 2023, was his grandmother who said she couldn't wait to hug him. "I feel very excited, happy. The process is still not over, it has only just begun, and we are really waiting to hug Edan and feel that he is truly with us," Varda Ben Baruch said from her Tel Aviv home. Sporting a baseball cap with the slogan "Now" and wearing......

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