{"id":69047,"date":"2025-01-21T18:56:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/21\/mother-of-thai-man-held-in-gaza-pleads-for-his-release"},"modified":"2025-01-21T18:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:56:49","slug":"mother-of-thai-man-held-in-gaza-pleads-for-his-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69047","title":{"rendered":"Mother of Thai man held in Gaza pleads for his release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wiwwaeo Sriaoun, whose son Watchara is one of six Thais held by Hamas, says ceasefire deal has given her more hope<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jan\/21\/gaza-ceasefire-palestine-israel-homes-aid-strip-live-updates\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The mother of a Thai man held in Gaza has pleaded for her son to be freed, saying the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that will allow for the gradual release of hostages had given her greater hope.<\/p>\n<p>Wiwwaeo Sriaoun\u2019s son Watchara was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/07\/i-have-to-keep-going-mother-of-thai-worker-kidnapped-by-hamas-prays-for-his-return\">one of dozens of Thai workers kidnapped<\/a> from the farms on which they were working in southern Israel on 7 October 2023. Six are still being held in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/21\/mother-of-thai-man-held-in-gaza-pleads-for-his-release\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wiwwaeo Sriaoun, whose son Watchara is one of six Thais held by Hamas, says ceasefire deal has given her more hopeMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesThe mother of a Thai man held in Gaza has pleaded for her son to be freed, saying the ceasefire deal betw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[1644,212,399,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaza","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\/69047","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69048,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69047\/revisions\/69048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}