{"id":4943,"date":"2008-12-14T05:54:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T10:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2008-12-14T05:58:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T10:58:35","slug":"eyad-el-sarraj-catastrophe-for-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4943","title":{"rendered":"Eyad El-Sarraj: Catastrophe for Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An Israeli blockade curtails food, fuel, medicine and travel.<\/p>\n<p>By Eyad El-Sarraj, <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oe-sarraj14-2008dec14,0,2658218.story\">14 December 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reporting from Gaza \u2014 From my home in the Gaza Strip, I followed the American election season with interest. Many times I heard the personal stories of Americans without access to healthcare and the toll illness has taken on their lives. I can relate. For months, I waited in Gaza, unable to leave (despite the fact that I carry a British passport) and increasingly desperate to secure a medical appointment about 45 minutes away in Israel. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oe-sarraj14-2008dec14,0,2658218.story\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli blockade curtails food, fuel, medicine and travel. By Eyad El-Sarraj, Los Angeles Times, 14 December 2008 Reporting from Gaza \u2014 From my home in the Gaza Strip, I followed the American election season with interest. Many times I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4943\">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-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1hJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","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=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4946,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}