{"id":12503,"date":"2023-10-21T06:53:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T06:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=12503"},"modified":"2023-10-21T07:01:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T07:01:45","slug":"two-american-hostages-released-as-israel-hamas-war-rages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/21\/two-american-hostages-released-as-israel-hamas-war-rages\/","title":{"rendered":"Two American hostages released as Israel-Hamas war rages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What we&#8217;re covering<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Two American hostages, a mother and her daughter, have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/20\/middleeast\/hamas-us-hostages-released-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released by Hamas<\/a> and are with Israeli authorities, according to Israel&#8217;s prime minister. The US citizens will be reunited with family at an Israeli military base, officials said.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/middleeast\/live-news\/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-20-23\/h_9e1f224c9baa444c1af30f6ffe0c7982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">praised their release<\/a>, and said the &#8220;urgent work&#8221; to free all American hostages \u2014 and other hostages taken by Hamas during their October 7 attack \u2014 must continue. An Israeli military official credited &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/middleeast\/live-news\/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-20-23\/h_2ae7768f7247f25a17fd6e2058633d47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">military pressure<\/a>&#8221; for the release of the mother and daughter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conditions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/20\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-hamas-war-friday-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in Gaza are deteriorating<\/a> as Israeli strikes pound the Palestinian enclave and aid agencies warn hospitals are nearly out of fuel. As a result,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/20\/middleeast\/protests-palestinian-gaza-middle-east-int\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protests against the siege<\/a> of Gaza are taking place in cities across the Middle East.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Humanitarian aid that has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/17\/middleeast\/rafah-border-crossing-gaza-israel-explained-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stuck in Egypt<\/a> should reach Gaza within &#8220;24 to 48 hours,&#8221; US President Joe Biden said Friday. The UN has said the trucks waiting at the southern Rafah crossing will be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/middleeast\/live-news\/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-20-23\/h_17061a2841d634b575c8b434a8d1e603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;difference between life and death.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The US and its allies have <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/20\/politics\/us-allies-israel-discussions-gaza-ground-invasion\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">been urging Israel to set clear\u00a0goals<\/a>\u00a0if and when it launches a ground invasion of Gaza, placing a particular emphasis on avoiding civilian casualties, US and Western officials told FunmiNews.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Caritas mourns worker and her family killed in Gaza church\u00a0compound strike<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>An employee at Caritas, a network of Catholic charitable organizations, was killed along with her family in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/20\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-hamas-war-friday-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Greek Orthodox church <\/a>compound that officials in Gaza say&nbsp;was hit in an Israeli airstrike on Thursday night, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.caritas.org\/2023\/10\/caritas-mourns-colleagues-death-in-an-attack-in-gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a> by the organization on Friday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caritas condemned what it described as &#8220;arbitrary and deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure&#8221; and called for a ceasefire to protect civilians and allow humanitarian aid into the strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that 17 people were killed in the Israeli airstrike on the church compound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CNN cannot independently confirm the&nbsp;number&nbsp;of casualties.&nbsp;The Israel Defense Forces on Friday acknowledged that &#8220;a wall of a church in the area was damaged\u201d as a result of a strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we&#8217;re covering Caritas mourns worker and her family killed in Gaza church\u00a0compound strike An employee at Caritas, a network of Catholic charitable organizations, was killed along with her family in the Greek Orthodox church compound that officials in Gaza say&nbsp;was hit in an Israeli airstrike on Thursday night, according to a&nbsp;statement by the organization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/231020164231-american-hostages-released-judith-and-natalie-raanan.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12506,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503\/revisions\/12506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}