{"id":18414,"date":"2018-10-14T15:23:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18414"},"modified":"2018-10-14T15:23:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T15:23:44","slug":"palestinians-in-historic-town-face-israeli-gentrification-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18414","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians in historic town face Israeli gentrification threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"67.1968503937\">\n<p>Some say its an architectural &#8220;jewel in the crown&#8221; of an ancient port in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/israel.html\">Israel<\/a>. But the Khan al-Umdan &#8211; in the old city of Acre &#8211; has been neglected to the point of near collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the gentrification of Acre and the money being lavished on the city, Khan al-Umdan is a crumbling shell, ruled too dangerous to enter.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians say the 18th-century centre for sailors is a symbol of how they are being squeezed out as rich Israelis and tourists move in.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Harry Fawcett reports from Acre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some say its an architectural &#8220;jewel in the crown&#8221; of an ancient port in Israel. But the Khan al-Umdan &#8211; in the old city of Acre &#8211; has been neglected to the point of near collapse. Despite the gentrification of Acre and the money being lavished on the city, Khan al-Umdan is a crumbling shell,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18414","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\/18414","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=18414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}