{"id":4341,"date":"2014-07-22T10:51:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T03:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4341"},"modified":"2014-07-22T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T03:51:57","slug":"alleged-israeli-strike-on-sudanese-weapons-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/alleged-israeli-strike-on-sudanese-weapons-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Israeli strike on Sudanese weapons arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources in Khartoum claimed on Monday that Israeli forces struck a weapons arsenal which held long range missiles for Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>The Arabic-language UK-based newspaper Al-Arab reported that the government in Sudan is not confirming the incident in order to cover up relations with the terrorist organization in Gaza. Such ties could entangle the country&#8217;s president Omar al-Bashir with an accusation of supporting terrorism from the US and Western nations.<\/p>\n<p>The attack came only hours after Israel accused the Sudanese government of storing long range missiles for Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Eye witnesses claimed to have seen a &#8220;huge explosion&#8221; and billows of smoke before ambulances and firefighters arrived at the scene&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Defense\/Report-Alleged-Israeli-strike-on-Sudanese-weapons-arsenal-364664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources in Khartoum claimed on Monday that Israeli forces struck a weapons arsenal which held long range missiles for Hamas. The Arabic-language UK-based newspaper Al-Arab reported that the government in Sudan is not confirming the incident in order to cover up relations with the terrorist organization in Gaza. Such ties could entangle the country&#8217;s president [&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":[784],"tags":[258,256,3055,3059,3058,3053,1616,3054,257,4694,254,4708,1613,3060,3057,3056],"class_list":["post-4341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cover-up-relations-with-the-terrorist-organization-in-gaza","tag-huge-explosion","tag-israel-accused-the-sudanese-government-of-storing-long-range-missiles-for-hamas","tag-israeli-forces-struck-a-weapons-arsenal","tag-khartoum","tag-long-range-missiles-for-hamas","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese-weapons-arsenal","tag-supporting-terrorism","tag-terrorist-organization-in-gaza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341","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=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/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=4341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}