{"id":43312,"date":"2020-07-23T18:24:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43312"},"modified":"2020-07-23T18:24:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:24:27","slug":"putin-and-trump-discussed-arms-control-iran-in-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43312","title":{"rendered":"Putin and Trump discussed arms control, Iran in phone call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"72.237449615244\">\n<p>\nLONDON: Footage of a Palestinian man who reportedly climbed the outside of a West Bank hospital five days in a row to sit on the window ledge of the room in which his mother was being treated for COVID-19 has inspired admiration and empathy online.<\/p>\n<p>\nJihad Al-Suwaiti, 30, was not allowed to visit his 73-year-old mother Rasma Salema, who was also being treated for leukemia, inside a Hebron hospital because of restrictions in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. So he scaled the wall to sit outside the window of her room on the second floor.<\/p>\n<p>\nAn official from the hospital told local media: \u201cHe climbed the pipe on the building to get up to a spot \u2026 on the second floor. He spent most of his day there, observing his mother&#8217;s condition from outside the window, before coming down when he was convinced that his mother was fast asleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAl-Suwaiti ignored instructions not to climb the hospital and returned on each of the five days his mother was a patient there before she died. He was Salema\u2019s youngest son, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>\nAl-Suwaiti&#8217;s brother said: \u201cHe was very close to our mother, especially since our dad died 15 years ago. Our mother was also battling leukemia prior to being diagnosed with COVID-19 a few weeks ago. When Jihad was informed about our mother&#8217;s death, he was angry and in shock. Now he seems to have accepted the fact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nA post shared by Twitter user Mohamed Safa on July 19, with an image showing Al-Suwaiti sitting on the window ledge of his mother\u2019s hospital room, has been liked nearly 200,000 times.<\/p>\n<p>\nOn the image of Al-Suwaiti making his precarious climb, one person commented: \u201cThis made me shed a tear.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother said: \u201cCan this become any more sad when we are only able to comfort our loved ones through a window, phone or tablet?\u00a0Then I am also so thankful that we can even do that. She saw her son\u2019s face one last time \u2014 I pray she is at peace now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Footage of a Palestinian man who reportedly climbed the outside of a West Bank hospital five days in a row to sit on the window ledge of the room in which his mother was being treated for COVID-19 has inspired admiration and empathy online. Jihad Al-Suwaiti, 30, was not allowed to visit his 73-year-old&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43312","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=43312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}