{"id":7873,"date":"2018-04-03T19:33:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T18:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7873"},"modified":"2018-04-03T19:33:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T18:33:33","slug":"arab-league-condemns-israeli-violence-against-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/arab-league-condemns-israeli-violence-against-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab League condemns Israeli violence against Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1465\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Arab-League.jpg\" alt=\"Arab League\" width=\"266\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Arab-League.jpg 432w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Arab-League-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/>Permanent representatives of the Cairo-based Arab League held an emergency session on Tuesday to discuss recent Israeli violence on the Gaza Strip\u2019s border that has left at least 17 Palestinians dead.<br \/>\n\u201cWe meet today as the Israeli occupation authorities\u2026 use weapons against unarmed people, which has led to the death of 17 and the injury of some 1,500 others,\u201d Saeed Abu Ali, assistant Arab League secretary-general, said in opening remarks.<br \/>\nAbu Ali went on to hold Israel \u201centirely responsible\u201d for the deaths and injuries.<br \/>\nLast Friday, tens of thousands of Palestinian protesters converged on the Gaza Strip\u2019s roughly 45-kilometer-long (28-mile) eastern border with Israel to demand their right to return to their ancestral homes in historical Palestine.<br \/>\nThe rallies marked the beginning of a planned six-week demonstration that will culminate on May 15, which will mark the 70th anniversary of Israel\u2019s establishment &#8212; an event Palestinians refer to as the \u201cNakba\u201d or \u201cCatastrophe\u201d.<br \/>\nIn the run-up to the mass demonstration last week, Israel had deployed thousands of troops along the border, threatening to use live ammunition against anyone who threatened Israel\u2019s \u201csecurity infrastructure\u201d.<br \/>\nDemonstrators demand that Palestinian refugees be granted the \u201cright of return\u201d to their towns and villages in historical Palestine, from which they were driven in 1948 to make way for the new state of Israel.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/arab-league-condemns-israeli-violence-against-gaza\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permanent representatives of the Cairo-based Arab League held an emergency session on Tuesday to discuss recent Israeli violence on the Gaza Strip\u2019s border that has left at least 17 Palestinians dead. \u201cWe meet today as the Israeli occupation authorities\u2026 use weapons against unarmed people, which has led to the death of 17 and the injury &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7874,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873\/revisions\/7874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}