{"id":6193,"date":"2009-01-26T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T20:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6193"},"modified":"2009-01-26T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T20:59:07","slug":"dion-nissenbaum-the-gunboats-of-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6193","title":{"rendered":"Dion Nissenbaum: The gunboats of Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dion Nissenbaum, Checkpoint Jerusalem, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonbureau.typepad.com\/jerusalem\/2009\/01\/the-gunboats-of-gaza.html\">25 January 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is Day Five of the cease fire, and the Israeli gunboats are booming off the Mediterranean coast.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s barely dawn and the Israeli warships off the Gaza Strip coast are opening fire on the small Palestinian fishing boats a few hundred yards off the shore. The Palestinians pulling in their meager hauls from the cloudy, sewage-saturated waters try to ignore the incoming fire that splashes in the waters around them.<\/p>\n<p> The Israeli ships enforcing a Naval blockage of Gaza have been firing on the fisherman every morning in an apparent attempt to keep them from getting too far from shore.<\/p>\n<p>But this morning, Thursday, Jan. 22nd, the Israeli fire blasts through the morning all along the coastline. Then the Israeli fire gets closer to shore. By late morning, five Palestinians, including a little girl, have been wounded by the Israeli cease fire shelling.<\/p>\n<p>This is post-war Gaza. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonbureau.typepad.com\/jerusalem\/2009\/01\/the-gunboats-of-gaza.html\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dion Nissenbaum, Checkpoint Jerusalem, 25 January 2009 It is Day Five of the cease fire, and the Israeli gunboats are booming off the Mediterranean coast. It\u2019s barely dawn and the Israeli warships off the Gaza Strip coast are opening fire &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6193\">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-6193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1BT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193","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=6193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6196,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}