JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian militant group Hamas said Friday that it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual nationals who had died in captivity. The Israeli prime minister’s office cast doubt on the offer, accusing Hamas of trying to manipulate talks underway in Qatar on the next stage of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
Hamas, which rules over what remains of the Gaza Strip, didn’t immediately specify when the release of soldier Edan Alexander and the four bodies would take place — or what it expected to get in return.
Alexander was 19 when he was abducted from his base on
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