{"id":242903,"date":"2020-01-23T01:39:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T06:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=242903"},"modified":"2020-01-23T01:39:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T06:39:40","slug":"israel-ph-armies-eye-stronger-ties-to-combat-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/23\/israel-ph-armies-eye-stronger-ties-to-combat-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel, PH armies eye stronger ties to combat terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v5.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilippineArmy2028\/posts\/2466450383603505?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARC_dSXxtngXgHe0DKefxl4p5goI5podC2yPTBFTszFRMrc-PkkL1ihUCtAcoiM8YE4eBM4zaU6-W4rFJUASinOWhzZYasKrGnZqlXWT7yoBf2faO0mvtx03ee6ZAVkm4M5Ebt43gYuls5FaevqPyDskiNOqNtFHTJ3K_y14luDcx7kkxVZ2Pw7ol_jigp90_tEA2FJHnlGEfDxZ-qUXlKdJH6CZUJ0saeJP-aDA2HbQSYe0gA4Pyl-qgs4q-P4FKM4AoMXomhA47rfPU2oHHM8BAwe06vvo-X4spatQFOPfOzUbD1YcOoTQ4HVQ6uOSUokSFUzwschXvbqZKnvupZiqNPBh&amp;__tn__=-R\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilippineArmy2028\/posts\/2466450383603505\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Israel Defense Attach\u00e9 to PH visits ArmyFORT BONIFACIO, Metro Manila \u2013 The Defense Attach\u00e9 of Israel to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilippineArmy2028\/\">Philippine Army<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilippineArmy2028\/posts\/2466450383603505\">Wednesday, January 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippines and Israel vowed to boost cooperation in terms of curbing terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>This came after Israeli defense attach\u00e9 to the Philippines, Col. Shimon Edri paid a visit to Philippine Army (PA) commander, Lt. Gen. Gilbert Gapay Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Edri and Gapay discussed both armies\u2019 future plans on exchange trainings to strengthen their capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>They also talked about PA\u2019s plans of conducting a longer training period as well as coming up with an army-to-army working group in order to further capacitate the force in addressing terrorism, PA spokesperson, Lt. Col. Ramon Zagala said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarawi is a major challenge for the Philippine Army to build its forces. [It] is a huge experience, but the main issue here is, not [to again face] another situation,\u201d Edri, who also looks forward in sharing and gaining knowledge as well as techniques in countering terrorism threats, said.<\/p>\n<p>The two officials also talked about PA\u2019s equipment acquisition and transfer to be utilized in future exchange trainings.<\/p>\n<p>Edri also assured to bring the right people to train PA troops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is also the direction of the Army to really invest in these things and activities. Prospects are very bright for our army-to-army cooperation,\u201d Gapay said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Defense Attach\u00e9 to PH visits ArmyFORT BONIFACIO, Metro Manila \u2013 The Defense Attach\u00e9 of Israel to the&#8230; Posted by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":242904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242903","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=242903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242905,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242903\/revisions\/242905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}