{"id":9639,"date":"2025-05-30T23:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=9639"},"modified":"2025-05-30T23:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:56:29","slug":"israel-says-hamas-must-accept-us-backed-hostage-deal-or-be-annihilated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=9639","title":{"rendered":"Israel says Hamas must accept US-backed hostage deal \u2018or be annihilated\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s defence minister warned Hamas to accept a ceasefire proposal submitted by US envoy Steve Witkoff \u201cor be annihilated\u201d, after the group said the deal failed to satisfy its demands, AFP reports.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, defence minister Israel Katz said the military was acting in Gaza \u201cwith full force\u201d, adding: \u201cThe Hamas murderers will now be forced to choose: accept the terms of the \u2018Witkoff Deal\u2019 for the release of the hostages \u2014 or be annihilated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s defence minister warned Hamas to accept a ceasefire proposal submitted by US envoy Steve Witkoff \u201cor be annihilated\u201d, after the group said the deal failed to satisfy its demands, AFP reports. In a statement, defence minister Israel Katz said the military was acting in Gaza \u201cwith full force\u201d, adding: \u201cThe Hamas murderers will now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9641,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions\/9641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}