Alexander (Sasha) was kidnapped from his parents' home in Nir Oz, along with his partner Sapir Cohen and his grandmother Irena Tati. His father Vitaly Trupanov was murdered. The Tropanov family are a family of Zionists who immigrated to Israel from the Soviet Union 25 years ago and settled in a kibbutz. On the terrible Saturday, Sasha visited his parents with his partner Sapir Cohen and according to evidence they were all kidnapped together to Gaza. Alex has been working at Amazon for the past year, as an engineer in the cloud division. Irena and Vilna were released as a Hamas gesture to Putin, for the release of Israeli hostages with Russian citizenship. They were released on 29.11.23. Sapir was released the next day on 30.11.23. Sasha remains a prisoner of Hamas.