{"id":7683,"date":"2025-10-17T03:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/7683\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:11:07","slug":"hundreds-gather-in-aventura-to-celebrate-return-of-hostages-as-israel-hamas-peace-talks-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/7683\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds gather in Aventura to celebrate return of hostages as Israel-Hamas peace talks continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aventura hosted a celebration attended by hundreds Thursday evening to celebrate the return of living <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hamas-says-handed-over-all-israeli-hostage-remains-it-could-recover\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israeli hostages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishmiami.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Greater Miami Jewish Federation<\/a> and groups such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loving-moms.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Loving Moms United<\/a> hosted the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all beat with one heart and this is just the most incredible expression of that,&#8221; said Ayellet Black, Israel&#8217;s deputy consul general of Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Black said the Miami community has been a source of strength over the last two years. Thursday night&#8217;s celebration lasted into the night and focused on the joy many members of the Jewish community said they have not felt in years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are grateful to live in the community that we live in,&#8221; said event organizer and Loving Moms member Natalie Kaswan. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We are grateful to be in Miami. And this is for us a miracle and we are very happy to be here. We are blessed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Celebration brings hope amid negotiations<\/p>\n<p>People attending the event to celebrate the return of the remaining living hostages said this week&#8217;s peace talks are giving them hope.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe for the first time in my life there&#8217;s a very big hope for peace,&#8221; said Shlomi Ezra. &#8220;Because finally all the great leaders in the world come together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ongoing efforts to repatriate deceased hostages<\/p>\n<p>While Thursday night&#8217;s event was filled with joy, Black emphasized that the work to recover the bodies of deceased hostages and return them to Israel remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Peace talks between Israel and Hamas continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aventura hosted a celebration attended by hundreds Thursday evening to celebrate the return of living Israeli hostages. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28,239,269,123,125,124,1064,807],"class_list":["post-7683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-florida","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}