{"id":21115,"date":"2018-11-05T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21115"},"modified":"2018-11-05T00:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:23:00","slug":"iraq-rejects-us-interference-in-domestic-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21115","title":{"rendered":"Iraq rejects US interference in domestic affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1399156\/middle-east\" readability=\"49\">\n<p>\nRAMALLAH: Israeli forces raided the offices of the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem on Sunday, authorities said, after reports of an investigation related to a land sale.<br \/>Israeli authorities confirmed the raid in Al-Ram, just on the other side of Israel\u2019s separation wall from Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, but provided few details.<br \/>It came after Israel\u2019s detention of the Palestinian governor, Adnan Gheith, on October 20. He was released two days later.<br \/>The Palestinian Authority\u2019s (PA) Jerusalem affairs minister, Adnan Al-Husseini, told AFP that Israeli forces confiscated documents and material during the raid.<br \/>The same building houses his ministry and the governor\u2019s office, both of which he said were raided in the first such Israeli action.<br \/>Palestinian government spokesman Yusuf Mahmud said it was a \u201cdangerous escalation of the occupation and a flagrant violation of all international laws and agreements.\u201d<br \/>Israel\u2019s Shin Bet domestic security agency said in a statement a joint raid with police and the army was over \u201cillegal activity by the PA in Jerusalem.\u201d<br \/>It said \u201cvarious materials were seized which will be examined by security bodies.\u201d<br \/>Asked to specify which illegal activity, the Shin Bet said only that all PA activity in Jerusalem was illegal.<br \/>Israel occupied east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it in a move never recognized by the international community.<br \/>It considers the entire city its capital, while the Palestinians see the eastern sector as the capital of their future state.<br \/>The PA has a minister for Jerusalem affairs and a Jerusalem governor located in Al-Ram, with Palestinian Authority activities barred in Jerusalem itself.<br \/>Israeli media reported that the investigation follows the PA\u2019s arrest of a man last month accused of selling property in east Jerusalem to a Jewish buyer.<br \/>Such sales are highly controversial among Palestinians concerned with Israeli settlers buying property in east Jerusalem.<br \/>But among Israelis, there have been calls for authorities to free the man arrested by the PA over the sale.<br \/>Neither the PA nor Israeli authorities commented on the alleged arrest of the property seller, who Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported was a Palestinian with US citizenship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH: Israeli forces raided the offices of the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem on Sunday, authorities said, after reports of an investigation related to a land sale.Israeli authorities confirmed the raid in Al-Ram, just on the other side of Israel\u2019s separation wall from Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, but provided few details.It came after Israel\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21115","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\/21115","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=21115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}