{"id":13324,"date":"2025-02-09T15:04:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T15:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/released-thai-hostages-return-to-bangkok-after-being-held-for-over-a-year-in-gaza\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T15:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T15:04:40","slug":"released-thai-hostages-return-to-bangkok-after-being-held-for-over-a-year-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/released-thai-hostages-return-to-bangkok-after-being-held-for-over-a-year-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Released Thai hostages return to Bangkok after being held for over a year in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6x0t5zq005826qi68dt51oa@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Five Thai workers released after being held hostage for over a year in Gaza arrived in Bangkok on Sunday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6x0ue9100023b6mskzeie3b@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Sarusak Rumnao, 32, Watchara Sriaoun, 33, Sathian Suwannakham, 35, Pongsak Thaenna, 36, and Bannawat Saethao, 27, were freed on January 30 as part of an exchange arrangement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6x0ue9100033b6m848dnsl3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            They were embraced by family members, some of whom cried, in the arrivals hall at Suvarnabhumi Airport. Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa and the Israeli Ambassador to Thailand Orna Sagiv were both at the airport to welcome home the freed hostages.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6x0ue9100043b6msvt57fim@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cWe are all very grateful and very happy that we get to return to our homeland. We all would really like to thank you. I don\u2019t know what else to say,\u201d Pongsak told a news conference at the airport.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6x0ue9100053b6mt0jyl5te@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Maris said the Thai government \u201cnever gave up hope and here is the result today. The tears of joy are our encouragement.\u201d He added that Bangkok would continue working to secure the release of the remaining Thai hostage.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6x0tg8x00003b6msjz1l20y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The group quickly left the news conference to return to their hometowns in Thailand\u2019s northern and northeastern regions.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm6x0v8rg000b3b6mqn2grpbi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            They were the second batch of Thai hostages released since the war broke out. During an earlier ceasefire in November 2023, 23 Thai nationals were released in a deal negotiated between Thailand and Hamas, with assistance from Qatar and Iran.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Thai workers released after being held hostage for over a year in Gaza arrived&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}