{"id":53031,"date":"2019-12-03T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53031"},"modified":"2019-12-03T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:23:26","slug":"un-senior-official-says-israeli-settlements-violate-intl-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53031","title":{"rendered":"UN Senior Official Says Israeli Settlements Violate Int&#8217;l Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Dec 3 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; A UN senior official, said, Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine, constitute a flagrant violation of international law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remarks were made by Rola Dashti, executive secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA), during a celebration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, at ESCWA&#8217;s headquarters in Beirut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dashti also voiced commitment to safeguarding the rights of the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, announced earlier this month that, Washington will no longer abide by a 1978 State Department legal opinion, that the Israeli settlements are &#8220;inconsistent with international law.&#8221;&#8211; NNN-NNA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Dec 3 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; A UN senior official, said, Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine, constitute a flagrant violation of international law. The remarks were made by Rola Dashti, executive secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA), during a celebration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,217,291,194,301],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53031"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}