{"id":28198,"date":"2019-01-07T18:24:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T18:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28198"},"modified":"2019-01-07T18:24:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T18:24:04","slug":"over-800-protesters-arrested-in-sudan-demonstrations-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28198","title":{"rendered":"Over 800 protesters arrested in Sudan demonstrations: minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nBAGHDAD: Visits by Iraqi officials to Israel announced by the Jewish state stirred controversy Monday in Iraq, where the deputy parliamentary speaker demanded a probe to identify those who crossed a \u201cred line.\u201d<br \/>Israel\u2019s foreign ministry said on Twitter on Sunday that three Iraqi delegations visited Israel in 2018, and details were also later released by media.<br \/>Baghdad does not recognize Israel, and is technically in a state of war with it.<br \/>First deputy speaker of parliament Hassan Karim Al-Kaabi called in a statement for \u201can investigation&#8230; to identify those who went to the occupied territory, particularly if they are lawmakers.\u201d<br \/>\u201cTo go to the occupied territory is a red line and an extremely sensitive issue for all Muslims,\u201d the statement said.<br \/>Kaabi is close to Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr, whose bloc won the largest number of seats in Iraq\u2019s legislative election last year.<br \/>Israel\u2019s foreign ministry said on Twitter that the 15 Iraqi visitors were \u201cinfluential Shiite and Sunni personalities in the country,\u201d but did not give names.<br \/>The ministry said the Iraqi travelers had visited \u201cIsraeli officials and universities,\u201d as well as the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.<br \/>A spokesman for the memorial told AFP that \u201ca group of 10 Iraqis\u201d had \u201cundertaken a guided tour in late December.\u201d<br \/>He said he was not able to give details on the identity and roles of the Iraqis.<br \/>Private Israeli TV station Hadashot, which described the Iraqis as \u201clocal leaders,\u201d said Sunday that they had stressed they were not taking part in an official visit and that secrecy was paramount.<br \/>A significant Iraqi Jewish community lives in Israel and regularly calls for a normalization of ties between Baghdad and the Jewish state.<br \/>But the question remains sensitive and Israel\u2019s support for an independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan in late 2017 provoked Iraqi officials\u2019 ire.<br \/>Israel was the only country to back the vote, which Baghdad deemed illegal.<br \/>In 2017, a former Miss Iraq sparked a storm when she took a selfie with Miss Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD: Visits by Iraqi officials to Israel announced by the Jewish state stirred controversy Monday in Iraq, where the deputy parliamentary speaker demanded a probe to identify those who crossed a \u201cred line.\u201dIsrael\u2019s foreign ministry said on Twitter on Sunday that three Iraqi delegations visited Israel in 2018, and details were also later released by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28198","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\/28198","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=28198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}