{"id":15472,"date":"2014-07-21T08:46:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T08:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/un-calls-for-ceasefire-in-gaza\/"},"modified":"2014-07-21T08:46:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T08:46:04","slug":"un-calls-for-ceasefire-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/un-calls-for-ceasefire-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"UN calls for Ceasefire in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{The UN Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza.}}<\/p>\n

It comes as US Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Cairo for talks on the crisis amid a mounting death toll.<\/p>\n

More than 500 Palestinians, mainly civilians, have been killed since the Israeli offensive began 13 days ago, Gaza’s health ministry says.<\/p>\n

Twenty Israelis – 18 of them soldiers – have died, Israel says, as it seeks to end rocket fire from Gaza.<\/p>\n

Sunday was the deadliest day since the start of Israel’s offensive, with 13 Israeli soldiers and more than 100 Palestinians killed.<\/p>\n

Israel says it has killed at least 120 militants since Thursday night when it launched a ground offensive, the second phase of a military operation that began on 8 July.<\/p>\n

In other developments:<\/p>\n

Overnight air strikes in southern Gaza kill more than 30 members of two families in Khan Younis and Rafah, local officials say<\/p>\n

Artillery fire and air strikes continue to the east of Gaza City, with Israeli aircraft seen over Shejaiya district for a second day, and the Maghazi neighbourhood
\nTen Hamas militants die after using tunnels in the northern Gaza Strip to infiltrate Israel near the town of Sderot, Israel says.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{{The UN Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza.}} It comes as US Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Cairo for talks on the crisis amid a mounting death toll. More than 500 Palestinians, mainly civilians, have been killed since the Israeli offensive began 13 days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000053163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-15472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000053163,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15472.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15472.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15472.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15472.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15472.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15472.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000053163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15472"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=15472"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=15472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}