{"id":60061,"date":"2023-11-24T15:51:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T06:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/24\/thailand-gaza-hostages-hopes-released"},"modified":"2023-11-25T01:58:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:58:09","slug":"praying-to-hear-good-news-hopes-rise-that-thai-hostages-in-gaza-could-be-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60061","title":{"rendered":"Thailand\u2019s PM says 12 of its citizens held hostage by Hamas have been freed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Srettha Thavisin confirms release of a dozen of at least 26 nationals being held after weeks of negotiations <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/nov\/24\/israel-hamas-war-live-ceasefire-set-to-begin-on-friday-morning-with-hostage-release-due-shortly-after\">Israel-Hamas war: latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A dozen of the 26 Thai nationals taken hostage by Hamas in the 7 October attacks in Israel have been released, Thailand\u2019s prime minister has said.<\/p>\n<p>Srettha Thavisin said on X he had received confirmation of their release, and that Thai embassy officials were going to pick them up.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/24\/thailand-gaza-hostages-hopes-released\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srettha Thavisin confirms release of a dozen of at least 26 nationals being held after weeks of negotiations Israel-Hamas war: latest updatesA dozen of the 26 Thai nationals taken hostage by Hamas in the 7 October attacks in Israel have been released, &#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-60061","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\/60061","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=60061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60084,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60061\/revisions\/60084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}