{"id":72166,"date":"2025-06-07T18:16:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T09:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/07\/body-thai-hostage-retrieved-gaza-israeli-defence-minister-nattapong-pinta"},"modified":"2025-06-07T18:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T09:16:27","slug":"body-of-thai-hostage-retrieved-from-gaza-says-israeli-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72166","title":{"rendered":"Body of Thai hostage retrieved from Gaza, says Israeli defence minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nattapong Pinta had been seized in the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attack and killed, according to Israeli military<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage, Nattapong Pinta, who had been held in Gaza since Hamas\u2019s attack on 7 October 2023, according to defence minister, Israel Katz. .<\/p>\n<p>Pinta\u2019s body was held by a Palestinian militant group called the Mujahideen Brigades, and was retrieved from the area of Rafah in southern Gaza, Katz said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/31\/thai-hostage-release-hamas-nattapong-pinta\">His family in Thailand<\/a> has been notified.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/07\/body-thai-hostage-retrieved-gaza-israeli-defence-minister-nattapong-pinta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nattapong Pinta had been seized in the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attack and killed, according to Israeli militaryThe Israeli military has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage, Nattapong Pinta, who had been held in Gaza since Hamas\u2019s attack on 7 October &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,1644,1005,3039,212,399,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gaza","category-israel","category-israel-gaza-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\/72166","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72167,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72166\/revisions\/72167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}