{"id":305666,"date":"2023-11-23T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T09:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=305666"},"modified":"2023-11-23T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T09:38:10","slug":"israel-hamas-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/world\/israel-hamas-hostage\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel agrees to hostage deal with Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An agreement between Hamas and Israel for the release of 50 hostages held by Hamas won\u2019t see anyone freed before Friday, Israel\u2019s national security director said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe contacts on the release of our hostages are advancing and continuing constantly,\u201d National Security Council Director Tzachi Hanegbi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal calls for 150 Palestinians held in Israeli jails to be released. It includes a four-day pause in fighting, which aid groups said should be taken advantage of to help the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agreement comes after weeks of talks. Israel\u2019s government said Tuesday that the war will continue, and that it still aims to \u201ccomplete the elimination of Hamas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Netanyahu\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Netanyahu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netanyahu<\/a> said Wednesday that the Red Cross will be allowed to visit hostages during the pause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to be clear, the war continues, we will continue it until we achieve all its goals,\u201d Netanyahu said Wednesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: NBC <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/news\/\">More stories here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agreement between Hamas and Israel for the release of 50 hostages held by Hamas won\u2019t see anyone freed before Friday, Israel\u2019s national security director said Wednesday. \u201cThe contacts on the release of our hostages are advancing and continuing constantly,\u201d National Security Council Director Tzachi Hanegbi said. The deal calls for 150 Palestinians held in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":305670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,25,2773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news","category-trending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/benjamin-Netanyahu-jpg.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305671,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305666\/revisions\/305671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}