{"id":40830,"date":"2019-09-12T13:23:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T13:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40830"},"modified":"2019-09-12T13:23:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T13:23:04","slug":"australian-couple-detained-in-iran-named-as-travel-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40830","title":{"rendered":"Australian couple detained in Iran named as travel bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"42\">\n<p>\nJERUSALEM: Israeli warplanes hit Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire, a military statement said early Thursday.<br \/>\u201cRockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israeli territory,\u201d it said in English without giving details.<br \/>\u201cIn response&#8230;fighter jets and an Israel Defense Forces aircraft struck a number of terror targets in a Hamas military compound in the northern Gaza Strip,\u201d it added.<br \/>The official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that Israeli aircraft on Wednesday evening \u201cfired at least one missile targeting an empty site in Al-SHajjaiyeh neighborhood,\u201d east of Gaza City.<br \/>No injuries were reported on either side.<br \/>On Wednesday, several rockets were fired from the Hamas-ruled strip at Israel, which responded by striking Hamas military positions in the enclave, the Israeli army said.<br \/>The strikes were confirmed by a Palestinian security source in Gaza.<br \/>Wednesday\u2019s afternoon exchange came a day after rockets fired from the Palestinian territory toward the Israeli city of Ashdod forced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to flee the stage during a campaign rally.<br \/>The right-wing premier is campaigning for re-election in September 17 parliamentary polls.<br \/>On Tuesday Netanyahu announced his intention to annex a large part of the occupied West Bank if re-elected.<br \/>Israel and Hamas have fought three wars since 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: Israeli warplanes hit Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire, a military statement said early Thursday.\u201cRockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israeli territory,\u201d it said in English without giving details.\u201cIn response&#8230;fighter jets and an Israel Defense Forces aircraft struck a number of terror targets in a Hamas&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40830","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\/40830","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=40830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}