{"id":197048,"date":"2025-04-29T17:29:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-protesters-in-tshwane-call-on-egypt-to-let-aid-into-gaza\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:29:37","slug":"egypt-protesters-in-tshwane-call-on-egypt-to-let-aid-into-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-protesters-in-tshwane-call-on-egypt-to-let-aid-into-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Protesters in Tshwane Call On Egypt to Let Aid Into Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em> Food aid and medical supplies are currently blocked by Israel <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">About 200 people demonstrated outside the Egyptian embassy in Pretoria on Monday, demanding that Egypt open the Rafah border for aid to be delivered to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">Israel has blocked all food, aid and medical supplies from entering the Gaza strip from Israel and Egypt. The blockade is currently being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/israels-gaza-aid-blockade-contested-world-court-hearings-2025-04-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contested<\/a> at the International Court of Justice. Last week the World Food Program (WFP) released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/wfp-runs-out-food-stocks-gaza-border-crossings-remain-closed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> saying that it had depleted all&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504290280.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food aid and medical supplies are currently blocked by Israel About 200 people demonstrated outside the Egyptian embassy in Pretoria on Monday, demanding that Egypt open the Rafah border for aid to be delivered to Gaza. Israel has blocked all food, aid and medical supplies from entering the Gaza strip from Israel and Egypt. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":197049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,7828,6880,4697,415,2671,257,4397,254,51246],"class_list":["post-197048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-call","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-gaza","tag-news","tag-protesters","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tshwane"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}