{"id":11618,"date":"2018-08-15T14:27:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T14:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11618"},"modified":"2018-08-15T14:27:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T14:27:52","slug":"indian-oil-tanker-suffers-explosion-off-oman-3-crew-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11618","title":{"rendered":"Indian oil tanker suffers explosion off Oman, 3 crew missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1356956\/middle-east\" readability=\"73\">\n<p>\nGAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israel reopened its only goods crossing with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in response to relative calm on the border after months of tensions prompted a blockade on most goods from July 9.<\/p>\n<p>\nAn AFP journalist at the Kerem Shalom crossing said dozens of trucks carrying various types of goods, including fuel, began passing into the blockaded Palestinian enclave run by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>\nBoth Israeli and Palestinian officials confirmed the reopening of the crossing, a key lifeline for Gazans and their crippled economy.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsrael also returned the fishing zone it enforces off the Gaza Strip to nine nautical miles in the south of the enclave. The limit is six nautical miles in the north, which borders Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsraeli authorities announced on July 9 that the goods crossing was being closed to most deliveries, partly in response to kites and balloons being flown across the border carrying firebombs to burn Israeli farmland.<\/p>\n<p>\nFood and medicines have been allowed through, but fuel had been intermittently blocked, including since August 2. All other goods were turned away.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe fuel ban exacerbated an electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip, which already suffers from severe power shortages and relies on generators in many cases.<\/p>\n<p>\nGaza border protests broke out on March 30 and have led to months of tension that have also seen several military flare-ups.<\/p>\n<p>\nAt least 169 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israeli fire since March 30, mostly during clashes and protests.<\/p>\n<p>\nOne Israeli soldier was shot dead by a Palestinian sniper in July.<\/p>\n<p>\nPalestinian militants in Gaza and Israel have fought three wars since 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israel reopened its only goods crossing with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in response to relative calm on the border after months of tensions prompted a blockade on most goods from July 9. An AFP journalist at the Kerem Shalom crossing said dozens of trucks carrying various types of goods, including&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}