{"id":318703,"date":"2017-07-24T11:40:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T10:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-yorkers-rally-in-support-of-palestinians\/"},"modified":"2017-07-24T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T10:40:48","slug":"new-yorkers-rally-in-support-of-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-yorkers-rally-in-support-of-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorkers rally in support of Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Hundreds of people have marched in New York City to express solidarity with the people of Palestine, amid escalated violence over the Tel Aviv regime\u2019s siege of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam&#8217;s third holiest site.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starting from the city\u2019s iconic Times Square on Sunday, the demonstrators rallied towards the United Nations headquarters and called for the end of Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chanting \u201cFree Palestine!\u201d the demonstrators also called on people across the world to boycott Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The protest followed similar events in Germany, the UK, Jordan, Turkey, Malaysia, Yemen and Iran over the past few days.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, people held a protest in front of the Israeli embassy in London and set the regime\u2019s flags on fire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170724\/97ed8ad9-3b2d-4a93-9f04-d8c2c4e0b50c.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">Tensions began to soar in the Old City of the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds after <\/span>Israel fully closed off the compound to Muslims after a reported shootout on July 14 near the site that left two Israeli&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/07\/24\/529518\/US-NYC-Palestine-Israel-Aqsa-Times-Square\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people have marched in New York City to express solidarity with the people of Palestine, amid escalated violence over the Tel Aviv regime\u2019s siege of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam&#8217;s third holiest site. Starting from the city\u2019s iconic Times Square on Sunday, the demonstrators rallied towards the United Nations headquarters and called for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-318703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}