Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in the message to employees that Sasha Troufanov, along with his mother, grandmother and girlfriend, was abducted during the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas. The

Hamas has announced the Palestinian militant group will release six living Israeli hostages on Saturday, instead of three as initially planned. But the ceasefire which has prompted the release of hostages was briefly shown to be fragile on Tuesday with reports from a Gaza clinic that two Palestinians were dead after Israeli tanks opened fire in Rafah.

Amazon previously faced criticism for not publicly commenting on the abduction of Alexander 'Sasha' Troufanov.

"Since we learned of Sasha [Troufanov] and his family’s abduction, we’ve had a dedicated team working behind the scenes with experts to support efforts to secure their release," Andy Jassy said Saturday.