{"id":20111,"date":"2018-10-28T05:23:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T05:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20111"},"modified":"2018-10-28T05:23:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T05:23:55","slug":"tit-for-tat-rocket-attacks-in-gaza-end-as-egypt-mediates-between-islamic-jihad-and-israelis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20111","title":{"rendered":"Tit-for-tat rocket attacks in Gaza end as Egypt mediates between Islamic Jihad and Israelis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1394761\/middle-east\" readability=\"66\">\n<p>\nAMMAN: A teacher has described the moment a flash flood engulfed a school trip near the Dead Sea in Jordan and swept 21 people, mainly children, to their death.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe water and mud levels kept on rising, and we tried to find a safe refuge,\u201d Majd Al-Sharari said. \u201cBut some students who were walking in a stream were washed away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nJordanian civil defense officials said on Saturday there had been no further calls reporting people missing after Thursday\u2019s flood, and the search for survivors and bodies had ended.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe party from Victoria College in Amman had been visiting the popular Wadi Zarqa Ma\u2019in tourist site. Al-Sharari said the trip was organized by a private company with three tour guides.<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter four hours the rain began to pour down and the group decided to return to Amman, she said \u2014 but the flood took them by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe managed to get some children to high ground, but the rocks were disappearing as the water level rose and they were left stranded.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe moments passed like years,\u201d she said. The tour guides had given instructions not to carry anything with them, so no one with her had any means of communication.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe were waiting for the flow to stop and the rising water to recede,\u201d she said. \u201cBy 6:30 p.m. we finally saw a man approaching us, that is when we gave a sigh of relief and realized that rescue was on its way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMMAN: A teacher has described the moment a flash flood engulfed a school trip near the Dead Sea in Jordan and swept 21 people, mainly children, to their death. \u201cThe water and mud levels kept on rising, and we tried to find a safe refuge,\u201d Majd Al-Sharari said. \u201cBut some students who were walking in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20111","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\/20111","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=20111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}