{"id":35351,"date":"2019-03-14T10:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T10:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35351"},"modified":"2019-03-14T10:23:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T10:23:24","slug":"us-backed-syria-forces-advance-into-daesh-enclave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35351","title":{"rendered":"US-backed Syria forces advance into Daesh enclave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"78\">\n<p>\nRAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: A spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has criticized a US move to no longer refer to the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights as occupied territories in its annual human rights report.<\/p>\n<p>\nNabil Abu Rudeineh called it \u201ca continuation of the hostile approach of the American administration toward our Palestinian people and &#8230; contrary to all UN resolutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a statement carried by official Palestinian news agency WAFA late Wednesday, he said the change was part of US President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to \u201cliquidate\u201d the Palestinian cause.<\/p>\n<p>\nTrump is expected to unveil his long-awaited plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace in the coming months, even though the Palestinian leadership has frozen contact with Washington over Trump\u2019s 2017 declaration of Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>\nPalestinians believe the upcoming plan will be blatantly biased in favor of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn its latest human rights report published Wednesday, the United States referred to the Golan Heights as \u201cIsraeli-controlled\u201d as opposed to \u201cIsraeli-occupied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother semantic change that appeared in last year\u2019s report showed up again this year, with a section titled \u201cIsrael, Golan Heights, West Bank and Gaza,\u201d instead of its previous \u201cIsrael and the Occupied Territories\u201d heading.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe US State Department insisted the different wording did not mean a change in policy.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsrael occupied the Golan Heights, West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Six-Day War.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt later annexed the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem in moves never recognized by the international community.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt has withdrawn from the Gaza Strip, but has fought three wars with Palestinian militants there and maintains a blockade of the territory.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsrael\u2019s occupation of the West Bank continues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: A spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has criticized a US move to no longer refer to the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights as occupied territories in its annual human rights report. Nabil Abu Rudeineh called it \u201ca continuation of the hostile approach of the American administration toward our Palestinian&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-35351","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\/35351","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=35351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}