{"id":92994,"date":"2020-09-19T13:46:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T05:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=92994"},"modified":"2020-09-19T13:57:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T05:57:31","slug":"palestinian-official-says-israel-loots-palestinian-antiquities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=92994","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Official Says Israel &#8220;Loots Palestinian Antiquities&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RAMALLAH, Sept 19 (NNN-WAFA) &#8211; A Palestinian official, yesterday, accused Israel of waging a &#8220;systematic war&#8221; to &#8220;loot Palestinian antiquities in the Palestinian territories.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saleh Tawafsha, the director-general of the antiquities preservation department, at the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, said that, looting Palestinian antiquities violates international conventions and laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Israel seized or attacked hundreds of archaeological sites in Palestine since 1967, whether by destroying, controlling, or turning these sites into religious shrines for Jews,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tawafsha also called for more effective international interference, &#8220;to stop the Israeli occupation from damaging Palestinian archaeological sites.&#8221;&#8211; NNN-WAFA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH, Sept 19 (NNN-WAFA) &#8211; A Palestinian official, yesterday, accused Israel of waging a &#8220;systematic war&#8221; to &#8220;loot Palestinian antiquities in the Palestinian territories.&#8221; Saleh Tawafsha, the director-general of the antiquities preservation department, at the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, said that, looting Palestinian antiquities violates international conventions and laws. &#8220;Israel seized or attacked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":93003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[287,217,291,301],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92994"}],"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=92994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}