{"id":45089,"date":"2024-05-22T05:25:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T09:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=45089"},"modified":"2024-05-22T05:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T09:25:22","slug":"far-right-israeli-cabinet-minister-visits-contested-jerusalem-holy-site-raising-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/far-right-israeli-cabinet-minister-visits-contested-jerusalem-holy-site-raising-tensions\/45089\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-right Israeli Cabinet minister visits contested Jerusalem holy site, raising tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, visited Jerusalem\u2019s Al Aqsa Mosque compound on Wednesday, declaring the contested holy site belongs \u201conly to the state of Israel.\u201d Ben-Gvir said Wednesday\u2019s visit was a response to a move by three European countries to unilaterally recognise an independent Palestinian state. \u201cWe will not even allow a statement about a Palestinian state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The hilltop compound is revered by Jews and Muslims, and the conflicting claims have led to numerous rounds of violence in the past. Israel allows Jews to visit the compound, but not to pray there. But the visit is likely to be seen around the world as a provocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, visited Jerusalem\u2019s Al Aqsa Mosque compound on Wednesday, declaring the contested holy\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":45090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[14301,1380,501,1418,5360,536,10890,14302],"class_list":["post-45089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-al-aqsa-mosque","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-jerusalem","tag-palestine","tag-palestinian-statehood","tag-religious-site"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}