{"id":59443,"date":"2023-10-26T23:42:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/26\/israel-thai-nationals-hamas-hostages"},"modified":"2023-10-26T23:42:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T14:42:07","slug":"israel-says-54-thai-nationals-being-held-hostage-by-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59443","title":{"rendered":"Israel says 54 Thai nationals being held hostage by Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok says figure may include those dead and missing, of which Thais make up largest non-Israeli group<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/oct\/26\/israel-hamas-war-live-eu-leaders-to-call-for-gaza-humanitarian-pause-biden-redoubles-efforts-on-two-state-solution\">Israel and Hamas at war \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fifty-four Thai nationals are among the 220 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, according to new figures released by the Israeli government. Almost all are believed to have been farm workers employed on the agricultural communities that bore the brunt of the terrorist attacks launched on southern Israel by the extremist organisation on 7 October.<\/p>\n<p>Thais also made up the largest single group of foreign dead and missing, with 24 confirmed killed and 21 unaccounted for, the updated statistics revealed. In all, 1,400 people were killed in the attacks, mostly civilians.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/26\/israel-thai-nationals-hamas-hostages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok says figure may include those dead and missing, of which Thais make up largest non-Israeli groupIsrael and Hamas at war \u2013 live updatesFifty-four Thai nationals are among the 220 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, according to new figures released &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3001,1005,3006,212,399,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamas","category-israel","category-israel-hamas-war","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-palestinian-territories","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59444,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59443\/revisions\/59444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}