{"id":2471,"date":"2016-12-21T16:39:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T08:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2016-12-18T16:47:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T08:47:26","slug":"outgoing-un-chief-supports-ending-gaza-siege-middle-east-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/outgoing-un-chief-supports-ending-gaza-siege-middle-east-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Outgoing UN chief supports ending Gaza siege \u2013 Middle East Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20161217-outgoing-un-chief-supports-ending-gaza-siege\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/12\/20160908_Ban-Ki-moon-flags-in-background-e1474907754914.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Outgoing UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon reiterated on Friday that there is no alternative to the two-state solution and ending the Israeli imposed siege on the Gaza Strip, Turkish state-run <em>Anadolu<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>In his last briefing to the UN Security Council as the UN chief, Ki-Moon stressed the need for \u201cbold and concrete steps by both Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) that would pave the way for meaningful peace negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that \u201cGaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem have been under military occupation since 1967,\u201d noting that \u201cthese lands comprise the future Palestinian state, ultimately to be agreed by the parties through direct negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ki-Moon also criticised Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, reiterating Israeli settlement is illegitimate under international law.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the number of Israeli settlers is currently up to 600,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I have consistently stated, Israel\u2019s settlement activity beyond the 1967 line is in flagrant violation of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20161217-outgoing-un-chief-supports-ending-gaza-siege\/\">Outgoing UN chief supports ending Gaza siege \u2013 Middle East Monitor<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon reiterated on Friday that there is no alternative to the two-state solution and ending the Israeli imposed siege on the Gaza Strip, Turkish state-run Anadolu reported. In his last briefing to the UN Security Council as the UN chief, Ki-Moon stressed the need for \u201cbold and concrete steps by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[475],"tags":[273,64,479,480],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news","tag-gaza","tag-news","tag-siege","tag-un-chief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}