For the first time since American-Israeli Edan Alexander's release by Hamas​, his family is speaking publicly about what their son went through.

Yael and Adi Alexander, parents of released hostage Edan Alexander, give a statement to reporters at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Hospital, a day after he was released home after 584 days in Hamas captivity.They are surrounded by their other two children and other family members,

"The most terrifying sound of all — the one Edan feared most — was the sound of the war raging above their heads," she said.