{"id":15866,"date":"2011-08-09T08:43:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T14:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15866"},"modified":"2011-08-09T08:43:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T14:43:08","slug":"call-from-gaza-open-rafah-crossing-permanently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15866","title":{"rendered":"Call from Gaza: Open Rafah Crossing Permanently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rafah Crossing Campaign<br \/>\n8 August 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, a call demanding the re-opening of the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Palestine has come from Gaza. It is propelled by support from Egypt and has been endorsed by dozens of organizations, citizens&#8217; groups, associations and coalitions in many countries, as well as by distinguished international personalities.<\/p>\n<p>The call to action underscores the Geneva Conventions which entitle all people to freedom of movement and protection from collective punishment such as the arbitrary closure of the Crossing. Fulfilling a demand of the Egyptian revolution, supporters urge their governments to re-open the gates that have turned Gaza into an &#8216;open air prison&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The Rafah Crossing is Gaza\u2019s only exit to the external world.  Israel\u2019s continued siege of Gaza includes closure of its six other crossings.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/palestinechronicle.com\/view_article_details.php?id=17029\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Call from Gaza: Open Rafah Crossing Permanently&#8221;<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rafah Crossing Campaign 8 August 2011 Today, a call demanding the re-opening of the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Palestine has come from Gaza. It is propelled by support from Egypt and has been endorsed by dozens of organizations, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15866\">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-15866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-47U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866","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=15866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15867,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions\/15867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}