{"id":59,"date":"2024-10-06T19:30:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/thousands-rally-near-wh-to-mark-israels-year-long-gaza-war\/"},"modified":"2024-10-06T19:30:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T16:00:27","slug":"thousands-rally-near-wh-to-mark-israels-year-long-gaza-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/thousands-rally-near-wh-to-mark-israels-year-long-gaza-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands rally near WH to mark Israel\u2019s year-long Gaza war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.mehrnews.com\/d\/2024\/10\/06\/4\/5195251.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The rally at Lafayette Park later turned into a march through the streets of the US capital with protesters demanding an end to the genocide against Palestinians and urging the American government to halt arms transfers to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Chanting \u201cFree Palestine\u201d and carrying signs that read: \u201cEnd all US aid to Israel, stop the Genocide\u201d and \u201cStand with Palestine, End the Occupation Now,\u201d protesters demanded an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, Anadolu news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the women-led peace group, CODEPINK, emphasized the growing demand for action from the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public opinion polls show that people not only want a cease-fire, they want to stop sending weapons to Israel, and the region is just blowing up, and we don&#8217;t want any nice words anymore. We want action, and action means stop sending weapons,\u201d she told Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>She criticized US support for Israel&#8217;s genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>MA\/PR<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/222529\/Thousands-rally-near-WH-to-mark-Israel-s-year-long-Gaza-war\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rally at Lafayette Park later turned into a march through the streets of the US capital with protesters demanding an end to the genocide against Palestinians and urging the American government to halt arms transfers to Israel. Chanting \u201cFree Palestine\u201d and carrying signs that read: \u201cEnd all US aid to Israel, stop the Genocide\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}