{"id":3909,"date":"2014-07-11T10:17:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T03:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2014-07-11T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T03:18:05","slug":"egypt-opens-border-with-gaza-to-allow-airstrike-casualties-in-for-medical-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-opens-border-with-gaza-to-allow-airstrike-casualties-in-for-medical-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt opens border with Gaza to allow airstrike casualties in for medical care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt says it has opened its border crossing with Gaza to allow the most critical casualties of Israeli airstrikes access to Egyptian medical care, following accusations that it has abandoned its usual role of mediating between the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships.<\/p>\n<p>The opening of the border accompanied statements by Egyptian officials that stressed Egypt&#8217;s active role in bringing the latest Gaza conflict, which Palestinians say has killed over 70 Gazans, to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman for Egypt&#8217;s foreign ministry, Badr Abdelatty, told the Guardian: &#8220;We have extensive and full contact with all parties concerned, either directly or internationally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jul\/10\/egypt-opens-border-gaza-airstrike-casualties-medical-care-palestinians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt says it has opened its border crossing with Gaza to allow the most critical casualties of Israeli airstrikes access to Egyptian medical care, following accusations that it has abandoned its usual role of mediating between the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships. The opening of the border accompanied statements by Egyptian officials that stressed Egypt&#8217;s active [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,2490,4697,415,2489,257,4694,254],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-badr-abdelatty","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptian-medical-care","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}