{"id":204017,"date":"2026-01-12T15:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=204017"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:57:35","slug":"us-envoy-says-hamas-misrepresented-release-of-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=204017","title":{"rendered":"US envoy says Hamas misrepresented release of hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said a Hamas statement issued Friday announcing it had agreed to release an American-Israeli soldier was, in reality, a condition of a &#8220;bridge&#8221; ceasefire proposal offered by U.S. officials earlier this week.<br \/>\nEarly Friday, the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas issued a statement saying it had agreed to release Edan Alexander&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/us-envoy-says-hamas-misrepresented-release-of-hostage\/8011067.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said a Hamas statement issued Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204017-us-envoy-says-hamas-misrepresented-release-of-hostage.png",800,450,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204017-us-envoy-says-hamas-misrepresented-release-of-hostage-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204017-us-envoy-says-hamas-misrepresented-release-of-hostage-300x169.png",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204017-us-envoy-says-hamas-misrepresented-release-of-hostage-768x432.png",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204017-us-envoy-says-hamas-misrepresented-release-of-hostage.png",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204017-us-envoy-says-hamas-misrepresented-release-of-hostage.png",800,450,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204017-us-envoy-says-hamas-misrepresented-release-of-hostage.png",800,450,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204017-us-envoy-says-hamas-misrepresented-release-of-hostage.png",800,450,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204017-us-envoy-says-hamas-misrepresented-release-of-hostage.png",800,450,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204017-us-envoy-says-hamas-misrepresented-release-of-hostage-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/204018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}