{"id":2862,"date":"2008-01-26T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2008-01-26T15:15:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T20:15:02","slug":"israeli-forces-turn-away-aid-convoy-at-erez-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2862","title":{"rendered":"Israeli forces turn away aid convoy at Erez Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ma&#8217;an News Agency<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maannews.net\/en\/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&amp;ID=27439\"> 26.01.2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem &#8211; Ma&#8217;an &#8211; An estimated 2,000 people, in an action sponsored by a coalition of Israeli peace groups, demonstrated at Erez Crossing on Saturday to demand an end to Israel&#8217;s crippling siege of the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>In a gesture of solidarity with besieged Gaza residents, the groups delivered two truckloads of food and other basic supplies. Israeli army agreed to transfer the supplies into Gaza on Sunday, but refused to allow any person associated with the convoy through the crossing.<\/p>\n<p>After months of sanctions Israel has imposed a total lockdown on the Strip for over a week, limiting supplies of food, fuel and medicine, supposedly in response to Palestinian projectile attacks on neighboring Israeli towns.<\/p>\n<p>Israelis, Palestinians, and internationals joined a demonstration which became show of strength for the Israeli left. &#8220;The geniuses in the Israeli high command have managed to awaken the Israeli left,&#8221; quipped a former Israeli soldier as he hiked the last 200 meters to the crossing.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by a broad coalition of Israeli organizations, volunteers arrived via bus from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Be&#8217;er Sheva, Haifa and Nazareth as well as by private car.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maannews.net\/en\/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&amp;ID=27439\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ma&#8217;an News Agency 26.01.2008 Bethlehem &#8211; Ma&#8217;an &#8211; An estimated 2,000 people, in an action sponsored by a coalition of Israeli peace groups, demonstrated at Erez Crossing on Saturday to demand an end to Israel&#8217;s crippling siege of the Gaza &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2862\">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-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Ka","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","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=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}