{"id":9962,"date":"2014-07-18T02:22:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T02:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=9962"},"modified":"2017-12-02T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T16:52:34","slug":"israel-launches-ground-offensive-against-gaza-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/israel-launches-ground-offensive-against-gaza-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel launches ground offensive against Gaza Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divLead2\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel has launched a ground invasion in the besieged Gaza Strip as the Palestinian death toll from Israeli\u00a0air strikes\u00a0and\u00a0shelling reaches 243.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">On Thursday, Israeli forces launched a ground offensive against the blockaded enclave after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the army to push the aggression against Gaza into a new stage.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu made the decision after a security cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Israeli war planes, warships and artillery have reportedly launched an intensive bombardment of different locations of the coastal enclave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel has killed at least 243 people and injured 1,800 others since it began its latest onslaught against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on July 8. About a third of the Palestinian fatalities are women and children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Since July 8, the Israeli military has attacked more than 1,800 targets across Gaza, which is home to around 1.8 million Palestinians living under blockade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Hamas has been responding to the full-scale Israeli assaults by firing rockets into Israel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel has blockaded Gaza since 2007, denying the Palestinian people there their basic rights, such as freedom of movement, jobs that pay proper wages, and adequate healthcare and education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2014\/07\/17\/371732\/israel-starts-ground-invasion-in-gaza\/\">Source &#8211; PressTv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has launched a ground invasion in the besieged Gaza Strip as the Palestinian death toll from Israeli\u00a0air strikes\u00a0and\u00a0shelling reaches 243. On Thursday, Israeli forces launched a ground offensive against the blockaded enclave after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the army to push the aggression against Gaza into a new stage. Netanyahu made the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1121,356,136,1119,1120,1425,163],"class_list":["post-9962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-lectures","tag-forces","tag-gaza-strip","tag-israel","tag-launch","tag-offensive","tag-palestine","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12277,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962\/revisions\/12277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}