{"id":30344,"date":"2019-01-23T22:25:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T22:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30344"},"modified":"2019-01-23T22:25:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T22:25:16","slug":"russia-says-arbitrary-israeli-airstrikes-on-syria-must-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30344","title":{"rendered":"Russia says \u2018arbitrary\u2019 Israeli airstrikes on Syria must stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"91\">\n<p>\nBAQA AL-GHARBIYA, ISRAEL:\u00a0Thousands of mourners attended the funeral on Wednesday of Aya Maasarwe, an Arab Israeli student killed in Australia, in her hometown of Baqa Al-Gharbiya in northern Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 21-year-old was raped and murdered in Australia\u2019s second-largest city Melbourne shortly after midnight on Jan. 16 when she was on her way home from a comedy show.<\/p>\n<p>\nHer body was found by passers-by in bushes near a tram stop.<\/p>\n<p>\nPolice in Australia, who have described the attack as \u201chorrific,\u201d have arrested and charged a suspect, 20-year-old Codey Herrmann, with her rape and murder.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe murder of Maasarwe, who had been studying in Australia for a year, shocked the country and sparked a huge outpouring of grief that saw thousands attend vigils in her memory.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI appreciate the support of all these people, in the whole world and also in my town,\u201d said her father, Saeed Maasarwe, with Australia\u2019s ambassador to Israel, Chris Cannan, by his side.<\/p>\n<p>\nThousands of people gathered in silence at Baqa Al-Gharbiya, a town with a Muslim majority, as mourners carried the coffin containing Maasarwe\u2019s body to her family home.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe only sound that could be heard was of Muslim prayers from loudspeakers.<\/p>\n<p>\nYouths marching in a procession held up black banners that read \u201cIt\u2019s time to say: Stop killing women\u201d and \u201cWomen have the right to live in peace\u201d in both Arabic and English.<\/p>\n<p>\nA crowd of mourners then followed Maasarwe\u2019s coffin as it was taken to the Al-Sarat Mosque and cemetery where she was laid to rest.<\/p>\n<p>\nHours earlier, the town\u2019s mayor, Khaled Abu Mukh, and Israeli Arab MP Ahmad Tibi accompanied Maasarwe\u2019s father as her coffin arrived at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a video posted on social media, Tibi said Maasarwe was now the daughter of all Arab Israelis.<\/p>\n<p>\nArab Israelis are descendants of Palestinians who remained on their land following the creation of Israel in 1948.<\/p>\n<p>\nThey account for some 17.5 percent of Israel\u2019s population and largely support the Palestinian cause.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAQA AL-GHARBIYA, ISRAEL:\u00a0Thousands of mourners attended the funeral on Wednesday of Aya Maasarwe, an Arab Israeli student killed in Australia, in her hometown of Baqa Al-Gharbiya in northern Israel. The 21-year-old was raped and murdered in Australia\u2019s second-largest city Melbourne shortly after midnight on Jan. 16 when she was on her way home from a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30344","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\/30344","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=30344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}