{"id":1150,"date":"2025-04-16T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halaal.net\/news\/2025\/04\/16\/hostage-deal-hangs-hamas-demands-serious-swap-as-gaza-contact-lost-april-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:00:45","slug":"hostage-deal-hangs-hamas-demands-serious-swap-as-gaza-contact-lost-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halaal.net\/news\/2025\/04\/16\/hostage-deal-hangs-hamas-demands-serious-swap-as-gaza-contact-lost-april-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostage Deal Hangs: Hamas Demands &#8216;Serious Swap&#8217; as Gaza Contact Lost, April 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Hamas official stated on April 15 or 16, 2025, that the group is willing to release all Israeli hostages in exchange for a &#8220;serious prisoner swap&#8221; and guarantees of an end to the war in Gaza. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/halaalnet-news-website.firebasestorage.app\/halaal_images\/Hostage-Deal-Hangs%3A-Hamas-Demands-%27Serious-Swap%27-as-Gaza-Contact-Lost%2C-April-2025-Image-Placement-1.jpg?alt=media\" alt=\"Hostage Deal Hangs: Hamas Demands 'Serious Swap' as Gaza Contact Lost, April 2025 - Image 1\"> However, Hamas reported on April 15 or 16, 2025, that it had lost contact with the captors of an Israeli-American hostage after an Israeli strike. Israel has offered a 45-day ceasefire conditional on the release of hostages.<\/p>\n<h3>Ongoing Efforts and Challenges<\/h3>\n<p>Efforts toward a ceasefire and hostage release are ongoing but face significant challenges. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/halaalnet-news-website.firebasestorage.app\/halaal_images\/Hostage-Deal-Hangs%3A-Hamas-Demands-%27Serious-Swap%27-as-Gaza-Contact-Lost%2C-April-2025-Image-Placement-2.jpg?alt=media\" alt=\"Hostage Deal Hangs: Hamas Demands 'Serious Swap' as Gaza Contact Lost, April 2025 - Image 2\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas demands a &#8216;serious swap&#8217; for hostages, but contact is lost with one captor after an Israeli strike. Ceasefire efforts face challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/halaalnet-news-website.firebasestorage.app\/halaal_images\/Hostage-Deal-Hangs%3A-Hamas-Demands-%27Serious-Swap%27-as-Gaza-Contact-Lost%2C-April-2025-Image-Placement-1.jpg?alt=media","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halaal.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halaal.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halaal.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halaal.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halaal.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/halaal.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halaal.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halaal.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halaal.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halaal.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halaal.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}