{"id":8192,"date":"2018-05-15T23:20:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T22:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=8192"},"modified":"2018-05-15T23:20:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T22:20:19","slug":"saudi-arabia-rejects-us-embassy-transfer-to-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/saudi-arabia-rejects-us-embassy-transfer-to-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia \u2018rejects\u2019 US embassy transfer to Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2513\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Salman.jpg\" alt=\"Salman\" width=\"289\" height=\"174\" \/>Saudi Arabia\u2019s government on Tuesday said it opposed the US decision to relocate its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.<br \/>\n\u201cThe kingdom rejects the American administration\u2019s decision to transfer its embassy to Jerusalem,\u201d the council of ministers said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).<br \/>\n\u201cThis step represents a significant prejudice against the rights of the Palestinian people which have been guaranteed by international resolutions,\u201d it said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government of Saudi Arabia has already warned of the grave consequences of such an unjustified move,\u201d SPA added.<br \/>\nThe government meeting led by King Salman reiterated Riyadh\u2019s condemnation of Israeli gunfire that killed dozens of Palestinians along the Gaza Strip border on Monday.<br \/>\nThe council also condemned the Israeli army\u2019s deliberate targeting of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. The council called on the international community to assume responsibility for stopping the violence and protecting the Palestinians.<br \/>\nThe government also reiterated the kingdom\u2019s position that it stands by the Palestinians and supports their bid to regain their freedom and independence as upheld by UN resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002.<\/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\/saudi-arabia-rejects-us-embassy-transfer-to-jerusalem\/\" 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>Saudi Arabia\u2019s government on Tuesday said it opposed the US decision to relocate its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. \u201cThe kingdom rejects the American administration\u2019s decision to transfer its embassy to Jerusalem,\u201d the council of ministers said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA). \u201cThis step represents a significant &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2513,"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\/8192"}],"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=8192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8193,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8192\/revisions\/8193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}