Trump to meet at the White House with the liberation of an American hostage from Gaza

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will meet at the White House on Thursday With Alexander, The last hostage of America in Gaza, which was released in May.

“The president and the first lady met many of the hostages issued from Gaza, as they are looking to meet Adan Alexander and his family in the Oval Office tomorrow,” the White House press secretary at the White House said in a statement.

Alexander, 21, is an Israeli -American from New Jersey. The soldier was 19 when The militants stormed his base in Israel and pulled him into the Gaza Strip. Alexander moved to Israel in 2022 after the completion of the high school and was recruited in the army.

He was It was released on May 12 By the armed group Hamas after 584 days in captivity. Alexander was in Israel from his release until he traveled to his home to New Jersey, where his family still lives.

Among the 251 people were transferred to Hamas in the October 7, 2023 attack that led to the Hamas Israel war.

Trump met in early March at the White House with a group of eight former hostages that were released by Hamas: IAIR HORN, Omer Shem TOV, Eli Sharabi, Keith Siegel, Aviva Siegel, Naama Levy, Doron Steinbrecher and Noa Argamani.

A meeting on Thursday comes before a planned visit on Monday to the White House by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where Trump is pushing the Israeli government and Hamas to negotiate the ceasefire, the hostage agreement and end the war in Gaza.