{"id":43350,"date":"2020-07-27T17:23:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43350"},"modified":"2020-07-27T17:23:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:23:19","slug":"rights-group-slams-houthi-denial-of-un-access-to-aging-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43350","title":{"rendered":"Rights group slams Houthi denial of UN access to aging tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"45\">\n<p>\nRAMALLAH, West Bank: The Palestinian Authority said Monday that a group of Israeli settlers has tried to burn down a mosque near the West Bank city of Ramallah.<br \/>Hussam Abu Al-Rub, the Palestinian deputy minister for religious affairs, said settlers attacked the mosque after midnight, spray painting anti-Palestinian slogans in Hebrew and then hurling fire bombs inside that burned part of the structure.<br \/>The mosque in El-Bireh, near Ramallah, is on a hilltop opposite an Israeli settlement. On one of its walls read the slogan: \u201cA siege on the Arabs, not on the Jews.\u201d<br \/>Abu Al-Rub said a firebomb came in through a window and burned part of the bathroom.<br \/>\u201cHad the firebomb got to the carpet floor of the prayer hall, the mosque would have burned completely,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Israeli government is responsible for the attack because they are the ones who opened the way for settlers to take our land and terrorize our people.\u201d<br \/>Israeli police had no immediate comment and there was no claim of responsibility. But it appeared to be the latest case of the so-called \u201cprice tag\u201d attacks that hardline nationalist Israelis have been known to carry out against Arabs in recent years.<br \/>These attacks have mostly been directed at Palestinians in response to militant attacks or perceived efforts by Israeli authorities to limit settlement expansion, while others have targeted Christian and Muslim sites.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH, West Bank: The Palestinian Authority said Monday that a group of Israeli settlers has tried to burn down a mosque near the West Bank city of Ramallah.Hussam Abu Al-Rub, the Palestinian deputy minister for religious affairs, said settlers attacked the mosque after midnight, spray painting anti-Palestinian slogans in Hebrew and then hurling fire bombs&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-43350","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\/43350","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=43350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}