{"id":1510,"date":"2018-03-13T17:43:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T17:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2018-03-13T17:43:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T17:43:28","slug":"blast-strikes-palestinian-pms-convoy-on-rare-gaza-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2018\/03\/13\/blast-strikes-palestinian-pms-convoy-on-rare-gaza-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast strikes Palestinian PM&#8217;s convoy on rare Gaza visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"hd\">\n<p class=\"title\">An explosion targeted Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah\u2019s convoy as he arrived in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday for a rare visit, lightly wounding seven people, officials and witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Hamdallah was not injured in the explosion, which occurred shortly after his convoy entered the territory run by Islamist movement\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamas<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">, a security source in the convoy said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"bd\">\n<p>Palestinian intelligence chief Majid Faraj was part of the convoy but was not hurt either, the security source said.<\/p>\n<p>A statement on official Palestinian media said president<a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/mahmoud-abbas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Mahmud Abbas\u00a0<\/a>considered it a \u201ccowardly targeting\u201d of Hamdallah\u2019s convoy and held his rivals Hamas responsible.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Radical Islamists opposed to Hamas also operate within the Gaza Strip and have regularly been behind unrest there.<\/p>\n<p>The Hamas interior ministry confirmed there had been an explosion and said security forces were investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>It said it would not derail Hamdallah\u2019s visit, which comes as reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Abbas\u2019s Fatah party falters.<\/p>\n<p>The two major Palestinian factions signed a reconciliation agreement in October that was supposed to see the Islamists hand over power, but it has all but collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Hamdallah appeared on television shortly after the explosion as he opened a plant in the territory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion targeted Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah\u2019s convoy as he arrived in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday for a rare visit, lightly wounding seven people, officials and witnesses said. Hamdallah was not injured in the explosion, which occurred shortly after his convoy entered the territory run by Islamist movement\u00a0Hamas, a security source in the convoy said. Palestinian intelligence chief&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2018\/03\/13\/blast-strikes-palestinian-pms-convoy-on-rare-gaza-visit\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}