{"id":274201,"date":"2023-10-08T07:35:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T07:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274201"},"modified":"2023-10-25T19:02:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:02:54","slug":"palestine-is-striking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274201","title":{"rendered":"Palestine is Striking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Moon of Alabama \u2013 Oct 7, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>October 5 2023:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/over-800-israeli-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-compound-sukkot\">Over 800 Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa compound during Jewish Sukkot holiday<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">More than 800 Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Thursday morning under the protection of Israeli forces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Rabbis, heads of settlement associations, and far-right university lecturers were among 832 people who forced their way into the religious site compound, a source in the Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem told The New Arab&#8217;s Arabic sister site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Israeli forces imposed severe restrictions on Muslim worshippers entering Al-Aqsa and those under 60 were prevented from accessing the site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It comes during the Jewish religious holiday of Sukkot, which started on 29 September and ends on Friday. The holiday has seen thousands of Israeli extremists storm the Al-Aqsa compound, with almost 1,500 entering the site on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Israeli extremists also continued on Thursday to hold provocative marches both inside Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City and outside its walls, attacking Palestinians and their property.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">They also beat and spat at journalists in a market area near Al-Aqsa, where shops were forced to close for the sixth day in a row.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The Old City is home to Al-Aqsa as well as the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The Al-Aqsa compound is the third holiest site in Islam and the most important Muslim place in Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>October 7 2023:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rybar_force\/status\/1710579131342090709\/history\">Escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This morning, the Islamic Jihad group announced the start of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, igniting another local war against Israel. They formally cited regular oppression and attempts on Al-Aqsa as reasons, where local Arab worshippers have been repressed repeatedly (in addition, there have been raids against the Islamic Jihad in Jenin over the past few weeks).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/10\/palestine-strikes-back.html#more\">Cont. reading: <em>Palestine Is Striking Back<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moon of Alabama provides some crucial background to the current flare-up in Gaza. It was barely reported by the Western MSM but served to ignite what followed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274202,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274201\/revisions\/274202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}