{"id":77560,"date":"2024-03-12T14:56:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T19:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/us-asks-hamas-to-release-women-elderly-hostages-for-longer-ceasefire\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T14:56:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T19:56:31","slug":"us-asks-hamas-to-release-women-elderly-hostages-for-longer-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/us-asks-hamas-to-release-women-elderly-hostages-for-longer-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"US asks Hamas to release women, elderly hostages for longer ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"65\">\n<div id=\"imgCarousel\" class=\"imgCarousel\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US asks Hamas to release women, elderly hostages for longer ceasefire\" id=\"carouselImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i-invdn-com.investing.com\/trkd-images\/LYNXNPEK2B0QF_L.jpg\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"text\">\u00a9 Reuters. U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 12, 2024. REUTERS\/Kevin Lamarque<\/span><br \/>\n<i class=\"imgGrad\"><\/i>\n<\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The White House on Tuesday urged Hamas militants in Gaza to release women, elderly and wounded hostages and accept a temporary ceasefire in the fighting with Israel in order to secure a more lasting one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A ceasefire is on the table today, for six weeks to be built on into something more enduring if Hamas would simply release women, wounded and elderly,&#8221; White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters<\/p>\n<p>Israel has accepted the terms of a six-week ceasefire in exchange for the release of some of the hostages held by Hamas since its Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel in which 1,200 people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas says it will only accept a deal based on a permanent ceasefire that ends the war and includes an Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, rather than another temporary truce.<\/p>\n<p>Under the most recent proposal, Israel would release Palestinian prisoners at a 10-to-one ratio to the number of Hamas hostages held. <\/p>\n<p>Hamas took at least 200 hostages on Oct. 7. During a week-long truce in late November, Hamas freed more than 100 Israeli and foreign hostages in exchange for Israel releasing about 240 Palestinian prisoners. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re determined to try to generate a ceasefire where at least six weeks with the hostages coming out and then try to build on that into something more enduring, but I can&#8217;t make any predictions about where this will lie,&#8221; Sullivan said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Reuters. U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 12, 2024. REUTERS\/Kevin Lamarque WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The White House on Tuesday urged Hamas militants in Gaza to release women, elderly and wounded hostages and accept a temporary ceasefire in the fighting with Israel in order to secure a more lasting one. &#8220;A ceasefire is on the table today, for six weeks to be built on into something more enduring if Hamas would simply release women, wounded and elderly,&#8221; White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Israel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":77561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}