Hamas has said that the fate of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander remains unknown since the body of a guard assigned to him had been recovered from the site of a recent Israeli strike, AFP reports.

“We managed to retrieve the body of a martyr who was tasked with securing the prisoner Edan Alexander, but the fate of the prisoner and the rest of the captors remains unknown,” Hamas’s armed wing said in a statement, days after announcing it had “lost contact” with the unit holding Alexander following an Israeli air strike on their location in the Gaza Strip.

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