{"id":24525,"date":"2023-02-11T17:27:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T15:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/?p=24525"},"modified":"2023-02-13T16:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T14:37:24","slug":"how-western-war-and-sanctions-devastated-syria-where-earthquake-now-kills-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/world\/how-western-war-and-sanctions-devastated-syria-where-earthquake-now-kills-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"How Western war and sanctions devastated Syria, where earthquake now kills thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decade of proxy war and illegal US and EU sanctions have devastated Syria, and blocked some humanitarian aid after a crushing earthquake killed thousands of people. To save face, Washington agreed to a temporary suspension, but UN experts have demanded a permanent end to the \u201csuffocating\u201d sanctions, saying they \u201cmay amount to crimes against humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"mtiNw3PxRyY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Western war and sanctions devastated Syria, where earthquake now kills thousands\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mtiNw3PxRyY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sources and more information here: <a href=\"https:\/\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/2023\/02\/09\/us-sanctions-aid-syria-earthquake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/2023\/02\/09\/us-sanctions-aid-syria-earthquake\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UN expert: \u2018Outrageous\u2019 Western sanctions are \u2018suffocating\u2019 Syria, may be crimes against humanity: <a href=\"https:\/\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/2022\/11\/12\/un-expert-western-sanctions-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/2022\/11\/12\/un-expert-western-sanctions-syria\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade of proxy war and illegal US and EU sanctions have devastated Syria, and blocked some humanitarian aid after a crushing earthquake killed thousands of people. To save face, Washington agreed to a temporary suspension, but UN experts have demanded a permanent end to the \u201csuffocating\u201d sanctions, saying they \u201cmay amount to crimes against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"How Western war and sanctions devastated Syria, where earthquake now kills thousands","footnotes":""},"categories":[1335],"tags":[1278,4272,12505,1514,4807],"class_list":["post-24525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-eu","tag-syria","tag-un","tag-usa"],"fifu_image_alt":"How Western war and sanctions devastated Syria, where earthquake now kills thousands","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}