{"id":12734,"date":"2018-08-25T17:24:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T17:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12734"},"modified":"2018-08-25T17:24:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T17:24:22","slug":"iraqi-protest-against-unsafe-water-in-basra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12734","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi protest against unsafe water in Basra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"65.4522821577\">\n<p>People have been protesting in the Iraqi city of Basra after hundreds fell ill after drinking contaminated water.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s government is investigating what caused this latest outbreak in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/iraq.html\">Iraq<\/a>&#8216;s second-largest city.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in oil-rich Basra have been angry over the last few months because of a lack of basic services and failing infrastructure and now what is coming out of their water tanks has brought them back to the streets in protest.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Osama Bin Javaid reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have been protesting in the Iraqi city of Basra after hundreds fell ill after drinking contaminated water. Iraq&#8217;s government is investigating what caused this latest outbreak in Iraq&#8217;s second-largest city. Residents in oil-rich Basra have been angry over the last few months because of a lack of basic services and failing infrastructure and now&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12734","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\/12734","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=12734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}