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American media reported that US officials have been withdrawn as Adam Bouler’s nomination as a special presidential envoy to the US State Department.

Axios website quoted a White House spokeswoman as saying that Polar will continue to serve the president as a governmental employee for hostages negotiations.

The spokeswoman said that Adam Bouler will continue to work to unjustly return the detainees around the world to their homes, adding that he played a decisive role in negotiating to return an American citizen from Russia.

The Wall Street Journal quoted assistants at the White House and Congress that Buller withdrew from his position “to avoid withdrawing his investments from companies with executive positions and will become a private government employee.”

For his part, the Israeli website “Walla” said that the contacts between Adam Bouler and Hamas have sparked great anger at the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The site quoted an official in the US administration that the nomination had been withdrawn two weeks ago to hold the position of presidential envoy with broader powers.

The American official had held the position of deputy director of the American health care services centers and the executive director of the American International Development Finance Foundation, and he also had a prominent role in the Abraham agreement signed between Israel and Arab countries in 2020.

After President Donald Trump won a second presidential term, he announced on December 4, 2024 his candidacy, “a special envoy for hostages with the rank of ambassador.”

Bouleer led talks conducted by the United States with Hamas in early March 2025, in which Washington proposed a new initiative to extend the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, aiming to release 10 neighborhood prisoners, in exchange for extending the truce two months by the Israeli occupation, which sparked concern inside Israel.

Commenting on reports that the Israelis are concerned about his meeting with Hamas representatives, he said he understood these concerns, but “at the same time the United States is not a client of Israel.”

The “Times of Israel” newspaper reported that the Trump administration later informed Israeli officials that Bulaler would not handle the Hamas prisoners in the future, while a number of Republican lawmakers demanded that he completely dismiss the administration.