{"id":28073,"date":"2019-01-04T22:22:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T22:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28073"},"modified":"2019-01-04T22:22:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T22:22:42","slug":"police-several-killed-in-baghdad-womens-shelter-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28073","title":{"rendered":"Police: Several killed in Baghdad women\u2019s shelter fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"52\">\n<p>\nGAZA: The Gaza offices of President Mahmoud Abbas\u2019s official Palestine Television station were attacked and ransacked on Friday, adding to tensions between his Palestinian Authority and the hardline Hamas movement which rules the territory.<br \/>Rafat Al-Qidra, the office director, said five men broke into the premises early on Friday and destroyed cameras, editing and broadcast equipment worth nearly $150,000.<br \/>\u201cWhoever rules in Gaza must afford protection to everyone here,\u201d Qidra told Reuters.<br \/>The station broadcasts material supportive of Abbas\u2019s Western-backed Authority, whose power base lies in the West Bank. Station officials immediately blamed Hamas for the attack.<br \/>\u201cHamas is deeply involved in this conspiracy,\u201d said Ahmed Assaf, chairman of the Palestininan Broadcast Corporation (PBC), speaking to the channel in the West Bank city of Ramallah.<br \/>The PBC issued a statement saying the attack was a \u201cclear reflection of the mentality of the Hamas movement and criminal gangs who believe only in their voice, and who seek to suppress freedoms.\u201d<br \/>Neither Assaf nor the PBC offered any evidence for their accusations, and Hamas officials swiftly condemned the incident.<br \/>\u201cWhat happened is rejected, and we condemn it,\u201d Eyad Al-Bozom said in a statement issued by the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza. He urged the station\u2019s officials to cooperate with investigators.<br \/>There has long been antipathy between Hamas, which won the last Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006 and is opposed to any peace negotiations with Israel, and with Abbas\u2019s more moderate and secular Fatah faction.<br \/>The two rivals have failed to end the divisions since 2007. Egypt has brokered a Palestinian reconciliation pact that provides for Hamas to cede control of Gaza to Abbas, but a dispute over power-sharing has hindered implementation of the deal.<br \/>The TV station was able to continue broadcasting from Gaza later in the day. The attack was widely condemned by other Palestinian political factions and by journalists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAZA: The Gaza offices of President Mahmoud Abbas\u2019s official Palestine Television station were attacked and ransacked on Friday, adding to tensions between his Palestinian Authority and the hardline Hamas movement which rules the territory.Rafat Al-Qidra, the office director, said five men broke into the premises early on Friday and destroyed cameras, editing and broadcast equipment&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28073","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\/28073","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=28073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}