{"id":12474,"date":"2010-01-05T15:03:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T21:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12474"},"modified":"2010-01-05T15:38:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T21:38:17","slug":"5-update-viva-palestina-trouble-at-al-arish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12474","title":{"rendered":"#5 UPDATE VIVA PALESTINA TROUBLE AT AL ARISH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Irish4Palestine<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ok I wanted to get confirmation a 2nd time before posting this. Here\u2019s the story I got. The convoy vehicles are in a fenced, locked and gated compound at Al Arish. The convoy members are WITH the vehicles inside this locked gated compound and are currently locked inside the compound.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/irish4palestine.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/5-update-viva-palestina-trouble-at-al.html\">Read More<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Updated@1537<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Message straight from the convoy:<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nTo all friends of Palestine <\/p>\n<p>Our situation is now at a crisis point! Riot has broken out in the port of Al-Arish. <\/p>\n<p>This late afternoon we were negotiating with a senior official from Cairo who left negotiations some two hours ago and did not return. Our negotiations with the official was regarding taking our aid vehicles into Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>He left two hours ago and did not come back. Egyptian authorities called over 2,000 riot police who then moved towards our camp at the port. <\/p>\n<p>We have now blocked the entrance to the port and we are now faced with riot police and water cannons and are determined to defend our vehicles and aid. <\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian authorities have by their stubbornness and hostility towards the convoy, brought us to a crisis point.<\/p>\n<p>We are now calling upon all friends of Palestine to mount protests in person where possible, but by any means available to Egyptian representatives, consulates and Embassy&#8217;s and demand that the convoy are allowed a safe passage into Gaza tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Ovenden<br \/>\nViva Palestina Convoy Leader<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish4Palestine Ok I wanted to get confirmation a 2nd time before posting this. Here\u2019s the story I got. The convoy vehicles are in a fenced, locked and gated compound at Al Arish. The convoy members are WITH the vehicles inside &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12474\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3fc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12474"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12480,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474\/revisions\/12480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}