{"id":72749,"date":"2025-02-28T21:42:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T21:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72749"},"modified":"2025-02-28T21:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T21:42:25","slug":"he-looks-half-the-man-he-was-brother-of-israeli-hostage-on-seeing-him-pleading-for-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/28\/he-looks-half-the-man-he-was-brother-of-israeli-hostage-on-seeing-him-pleading-for-release\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He looks half the man he was\u2019: brother of Israeli hostage on seeing him pleading for release"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1zZzsB.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=650&amp;y=466&amp;s=611&amp;d=611\" alt=\"Ilay David, who recently returned from Washington where he met Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy to the Middle East. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum\/The Guardian\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Hamas brought two captive Israelis to watch Saturday\u2019s release of six of their fellow hostages and then beg for their own liberation, it was purposely jabbing at a deeply painful divide in Israeli society. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/he-looks-half-the-man-he-was-brother-of-israeli-hostage-on-seeing-him-pleading-for-release\/ar-AA1zZFMJ?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=d1a3d12970904a9fd7a1b9069239c899&amp;ei=19\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>When Hamas brought two captive Israelis to watch Saturday\u2019s release of six of their fellow hostages and then beg for their own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ilay-David.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72751,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72749\/revisions\/72751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}