Freed Hamas hostage Edan Alexanders parents nearly missed news of his release

Edan Alexander’s parents revealed Monday that they missed eight calls telling them their son was finally being released by Hamas terrorists — and that they nearly knocked him over when they were finally reunited because he was “so weak.”The 21-year-old Israeli-American from New Jersey was freed last Monday after enduring more than 19 months of unimaginable horror at the hands of the terror group.But his dad, Adi Alexander, told ABC News that he nearly missed news of the high-profile release altogether.“My phone was on silent and I was working with the blower outside and it was too noisy,” he said.When he finally checked his phone, Adi said he was hit with a barrage of missed calls from President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, who was involved in the negotiations with the terror group.

“I saw those eight missed calls and called them back immediately,” Adi said, adding that Witkoff informed him and his wife that Hamas would be breaking the news within 10 minutes.Speaking about the emotional moment they were eventually reunited, Alexander’s mother said she nearly knocked her son to the ground because he was “so weak” from his 584 days in captivity.Heart wrenching video captured the moment a hysterical Yael Alexander was filmed running to embrace her son, who was serving with the Israeli military when he was taken hostage, after he was cut loose.“I start running and screaming and I hug him so tight, you know, to my body, and we almost fell because he was so weak,” Yael told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” of their first reconciliation.“I was so excited just to see him and to feel him and just to tell him … ‘I love you and we were worried sick.’“It was such a pure joy,” she added.

Alexander, who was the last living American held hostage by Hamas before he was freed, was starved and severely tortured during his time in captivity.At times, the IDF soldier was often locked in a cage and shackled at the ha...