{"id":59539,"date":"2023-10-31T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/31\/israel-hamas-family-await-news-son-taken-hostage-thousand-thai-migrant-worker"},"modified":"2023-10-31T14:00:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T05:00:35","slug":"i-want-him-to-come-home-thai-family-awaits-news-of-son-abducted-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59539","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I want him to come home\u2019: Thai family awaits news of son abducted in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Komkrit Chombua was one of thousands of Thai migrant workers in Israel when he was taken hostage by Hamas<\/p>\n<p>For three weeks, Sunan Chombua has waited anxiously for news about his son. On 7 October, a photograph shared online showed Komkrit Chombua, 29, sitting on the floor, head bowed, among a group of hostages taken by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I looked at the phone and I saw his picture, I knew immediately it was him,\u201d Sunan said. \u201cI want the government to negotiate with them quicker, faster. I want to see him again, I want him to come home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/31\/israel-hamas-family-await-news-son-taken-hostage-thousand-thai-migrant-worker\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Komkrit Chombua was one of thousands of Thai migrant workers in Israel when he was taken hostage by HamasFor three weeks, Sunan Chombua has waited anxiously for news about his son. On 7 October, a photograph shared online showed Komkrit Chombua, 29, si&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2336,"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":[41,1644,3001,1005,3006,212,399,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gaza","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\/59539","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\/2336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59540,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59539\/revisions\/59540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}