{"id":35063,"date":"2019-03-12T14:23:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T14:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35063"},"modified":"2019-03-12T14:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T14:23:16","slug":"hard-line-iranian-cleric-raisi-gets-second-powerful-job-in-a-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35063","title":{"rendered":"Hard-line Iranian cleric Raisi gets second powerful job in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"69\">\n<p>\nRAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: A Palestinian who ran at Israeli troops with a knife in the flashpoint city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday was shot dead by soldiers, Israel\u2019s army said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Palestinian health ministry confirmed the death but provided no details on the incident, saying only the \u201cIsraeli occupation opened fire on him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe incident started near an Israeli military post, the army said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cSoldiers identified a terrorist armed with a knife running toward them,\u201d a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>\nA physical confrontation followed, \u201cthen he ran toward a nearby building while still armed with a knife,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe soldiers then fired toward him, thwarted the attack and he was killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nNo soldiers were wounded, the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>\nPalestinians have launched sporadic attacks against Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsraeli forces have been accused of responding with excessive force in some instances.<\/p>\n<p>\nTensions run particularly high in Hebron, where several hundred Israeli settlers live in the city center under heavy army protection among around 200,000 Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is also the location of a key holy site known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque and to Jews as the Tomb of the Patriarchs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: A Palestinian who ran at Israeli troops with a knife in the flashpoint city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday was shot dead by soldiers, Israel\u2019s army said. The Palestinian health ministry confirmed the death but provided no details on the incident, saying only the \u201cIsraeli occupation opened fire&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35063","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=35063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}