{"id":60212,"date":"2023-11-30T06:58:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/29\/thai-foreign-minister-in-tears-as-he-welcomes-hostages-freed-by-hamas"},"modified":"2023-11-30T11:02:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T02:02:15","slug":"thai-foreign-minister-in-tears-as-he-welcomes-hostages-freed-by-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60212","title":{"rendered":"Thai foreign minister greets hostages freed by Hamas in emotional meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four Thais were released late on Wednesday after two on Tuesday, having spent seven weeks in captivity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/live\/2023\/nov\/29\/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-news-ceasefire-extension-reports-israel-raid-gaza-west-bank-palestine-jenin\">Israel-Hamas war \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s foreign minister has met Thai hostages in an emotional welcome after their release by Hamas from seven weeks of captivity, saying he hoped for freedom soon for the remaining hostages from his country.<\/p>\n<p>Four Thai workers were released late on Wednesday, bringing the total released to 23.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/29\/thai-foreign-minister-in-tears-as-he-welcomes-hostages-freed-by-hamas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Thais were released late on Wednesday after two on Tuesday, having spent seven weeks in captivityIsrael-Hamas war \u2013 live updatesThailand\u2019s foreign minister has met Thai hostages in an emotional welcome after their release by Hamas from seven weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"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-60212","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\/60212","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\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60214,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60212\/revisions\/60214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}