{"id":69247,"date":"2025-01-31T13:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T04:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/31\/thai-hostage-release-hamas-nattapong-pinta"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T04:58:04","slug":"i-told-my-son-to-keep-strong-lets-wait-for-dad-thailand-hopes-for-return-of-its-last-hamas-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69247","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I told my son to keep strong \u2013 let\u2019s wait for dad\u2019: Thailand hopes for return of its last Hamas hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five of the last six Thai nationals have been released by Hamas. For one nine-year-old, the agonising wait continues for the return of his father <\/p>\n

Narissara Jantasang\u2019s nine-year-old son was brimming with excitement as he watched footage of Thai hostages being released from Gaza on Thursday. Then he noticed his mother had started to cry. \u201cHe asked me: \u2018what\u2019s going on, Mom?\u2019\u201d Narissara says. \u201cHe realised his dad was not one of those released.\u201d<\/p>\n

Five of the remaining six Thai nationals still being held in Gaza were released on Thursday<\/a>, after 15 months in captivity. Nattapong Pinta, 36, however, was not among them. Of dozens of Thais kidnapped by Hamas from the farms on which they were working in southern Israel on 7 October 2023, he is the last to remain.<\/p>\n

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Five of the last six Thai nationals have been released by Hamas. For one nine-year-old, the agonising wait continues for the return of his father Narissara Jantasang\u2019s nine-year-old son was brimming with excitement as he watched footage of Thai hostage…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[1644,3001,1005,3039,212,399,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaza","category-hamas","category-israel","category-israel-gaza-war","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-palestinian-territories","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69247","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69248,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69247\/revisions\/69248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}