{"id":18468,"date":"2014-07-08T21:26:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=18468"},"modified":"2014-07-08T21:26:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T13:26:20","slug":"israeli-army-launches-offensive-on-gaza-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/08\/israeli-army-launches-offensive-on-gaza-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli army launches offensive on Gaza Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Israel bombards Gaza Strip after surge in Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli towns: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/YUhTBz43Sr\">http:\/\/t.co\/YUhTBz43Sr<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/rFNzkDJFhl\">pic.twitter.com\/rFNzkDJFhl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Reuters Top News (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/statuses\/486499507400896512\">July 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>JERUSALEM \u2014 The Israeli army says it has launched an offensive operation against the Gaza Strip to quell rocket attacks, and a Palestinian official says Israeli airstrikes have wounded at least nine Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>A Twitter statement from the Israeli army early Tuesday says Operation Protective Edge is intended to &#8220;stop the terror Israel&#8217;s citizens face on a daily basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The army says it was carrying out airstrikes early Tuesday in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday. It did not elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>Gaza health official Ashraf Al-Kedra says at least nine Palestinians were brought to a Gaza hospital with light to moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The airstrikes come after Gaza militants fired dozens of rockets at southern Israel late Monday, as the Israeli military rushed more forces to the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel bombards Gaza Strip after surge in Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli towns: http:\/\/t.co\/YUhTBz43Sr pic.twitter.com\/rFNzkDJFhl &mdash; Reuters Top News (@Reuters) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,17],"tags":[6523,841,559,6524],"class_list":["post-18468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-rocket-attack","mauthors-daniel-estrin","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}