(250512) -- TEL AVIV, May 12, 2025 (Xinhua) -- People wait to watch a live stream of the release of Israeli-U.S. hostage Edan Alexander from the Gaza Strip at a square in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 12, 2025. The United States informed Israel on Sunday that Hamas would release Edan Alexander, a U.S. born soldier in the Israeli army, who was abducted on Oct. 7, 2023, in a Hamas-led raid on southern Israel that resulted in the kidnapping of 251 people and the killing of about 1,200 others. (Tomer Neuberg/JINI via Xinhua)