{"id":778,"date":"2017-10-05T23:34:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T23:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=778"},"modified":"2017-10-05T23:34:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T23:34:53","slug":"al-jazeera-palestinians-decry-israel-plan-to-close-borders-with-west-bank-and-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2017\/10\/05\/al-jazeera-palestinians-decry-israel-plan-to-close-borders-with-west-bank-and-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera: Palestinians decry Israel plan to close borders with West Bank and Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by: Colin Bunn<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/palestinians-decry-israel-plan-close-borders-west-bank-gaza-171005160114161.html<\/p>\n<header id=\"header-story\" class=\"clearfix da-all da-pad ta-all ta-pad\">\n<hgroup>\n<h1 class=\"heading-story\">Palestinians decry Israel plan to close borders with West Bank and Gaza<\/h1>\n<\/hgroup>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"Article-Top-Toolbar\" class=\"ArticleTopToolbar\">\n<div class=\"wrapper-sticky sticky-active\">\n<div class=\"ArticleSocialMediaTopBar sticky\">\n<div id=\"dvListen\">\n<div id=\"xp1\" class=\"rs_preserve rs_skip\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"readspeaker_button1\" class=\"rs_preserve rs_skip\"><a href=\"http:\/\/app-eu.readspeaker.com\/cgi-bin\/rsent?customerid=5707&amp;lang=en_us&amp;readclass=article-body&amp;url=http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/palestinians-decry-israel-plan-close-borders-west-bank-gaza-171005160114161.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/assets\/images\/listen.png\" alt=\"Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"SM_Icons\">\n<li class=\"Share_FB\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fbshares\" title=\"Share via Facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/Assets\/images\/facebook.png\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"Share_TW\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"twittershares\" title=\"Share via Twitter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/Assets\/images\/twitter.png\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"Shares twittersharescount\"><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"SM_RightIcons NextLine\">\n<li class=\"Share_PR\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"btnPrint\" class=\"Tool-Print\" title=\"Print\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/Assets\/images\/Print.png\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"vdoContainer\" class=\"video-container\">\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\" class=\"article-body\">\n<p>Israel is planning to close its borders with the Occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip for an unusually long period. The closure, for a Jewish holiday, means no Palestinians will be allowed to cross into Israel for 11 days.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians say the move is collective punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Harry Fawcett reports from the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta\"><span class=\"oryx-heading-profile\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/profile\/harry-fawcett.html\" rel=\"author\">Harry Fawcett<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by: Colin Bunn Al Jazeera http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/palestinians-decry-israel-plan-close-borders-west-bank-gaza-171005160114161.html Palestinians decry Israel plan to close borders with West Bank and Gaza Israel is planning to close its borders with the Occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip for an unusually long period. The closure, for a Jewish holiday, means no Palestinians will be allowed to cross into Israel for 11 days. Palestinians&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2017\/10\/05\/al-jazeera-palestinians-decry-israel-plan-to-close-borders-with-west-bank-and-gaza\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}