Israeli-US hostage reunites with family after being freed by Hamas
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Israeli-American hostage, Edan Alexander, arrives in Israel after being released from captivity by Hamas. Also: Sean Diddy Combs' sex-trafficking trial begins, and can Ancelotti fix Brazil’s football?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Jackie Leonard and in the early hours of Tuesday the 13th of May, these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.9 | Idan Alexander, the Israeli-American hostage, who was taken to Gaza by Hamas in the October the 7th attack, has been released and is back in Israel. |
| 0:20.0 | The first white South Africans have arrived in the |
| 0:22.3 | United States where the government is to grant them refugee status. And prosecutors in the United |
| 0:27.5 | States say Sean Diddy Combs ran a criminal enterprise as his sex trafficking trial begins. |
| 0:36.4 | Also in this podcast, a surprise find of documents that have been in the basement of the |
| 0:41.2 | Supreme Court in Argentina for 84 years. |
| 0:44.3 | Old photographs, propaganda, but also membership booklets of organizations affiliated with |
| 0:50.8 | the Nazi party. |
| 0:55.4 | 21-year-old Idan Alexander is back in Israel, having been released by Hamas after 19 months in |
| 1:02.4 | captivity. Shortly after it was confirmed, he was free, the US envoy Steve Whitkoff handed |
| 1:08.8 | his mother his own phone so she could talk to her son for the first time |
| 1:12.5 | since he was taken on October 7th, 2023. |
| 1:16.6 | Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Eidan? |
| 1:22.3 | Yidna? |
| 1:22.7 | You're going to be outside. The soul of my heart. You're in the outside. |
| 1:28.7 | You look unbelievable. |
| 1:32.8 | Wow. |
| 1:33.9 | You look beautiful. |
| 1:34.9 | I love you so much. |
| 1:36.2 | Edana Alexander, born in Tel Aviv, but raised in New Jersey, was serving in the Israeli |
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