{"id":62268,"date":"2024-03-01T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/01\/politicians-from-12-countries-unite-to-press-for-arms-ban-on-israel"},"modified":"2024-03-02T06:55:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T21:55:17","slug":"politicians-from-12-countries-unite-to-press-for-arms-ban-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62268","title":{"rendered":"Politicians from 12 countries unite to press for arms ban on Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letter aims to bring public anger over 30,000 deaths of Palestinians in Gaza into heart of parliaments<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 MPs from 12 countries have committed themselves to trying to persuade their governments to impose a ban on arms sales to Israel, arguing they will not be complicit in \u201cIsrael\u2019s grave violation of international law\u201d in its assault on Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, organised by Progressive International, a network of socialist MPs and activists focused on international justice, is seen as the best practical measure possible to bring public anger over the 30,000 deaths of Palestinians in Gaza into the heart of parliaments, where calls for an immediate unconditional ceasefire have so far fallen on deaf ears or been rejected by national governments.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/01\/politicians-from-12-countries-unite-to-press-for-arms-ban-on-israel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter aims to bring public anger over 30,000 deaths of Palestinians in Gaza into heart of parliamentsMore than 200 MPs from 12 countries have committed themselves to trying to persuade their governments to impose a ban on arms sales to Israel, arguing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[709,43,888,452,244,526,1644,533,62,579,1005,3039,212,219,399,746,1017,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arms-trade","category-australia-news","category-belgium","category-brazil","category-canada","category-france","category-gaza","category-germany","category-india","category-ireland","category-israel","category-israel-gaza-war","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-netherlands","category-palestinian-territories","category-spain","category-turkey","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62279,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62268\/revisions\/62279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}