{"id":49112,"date":"2024-03-11T19:11:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T09:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49112"},"modified":"2024-03-11T19:11:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T09:11:48","slug":"saudi-king-calls-for-end-to-heinous-crimes-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49112","title":{"rendered":"Saudi king calls for end to &#8216;heinous crimes&#8217; in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman has called in his Ramadan message for the international community to bring an end to the &#8220;heinous crimes&#8221; taking place in Gaza, where Israel&#8217;s war with Hamas has been raging for more than five months.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking as custodian of Islam&#8217;s two holiest sites, King Salman gave thanks on Sunday for the &#8220;blessings bestowed upon the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia&#8221;, but noted the war in besieged Gaza would cast a shadow over the holy month of fasting and prayer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we witness the arrival of Ramadan this year, our hearts are heavy with sorrow for the ongoing suffering of our Palestinian brothers facing relentless aggression,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We call upon the international community to uphold its responsibilities to put an end to these heinous crimes and ensure the establishment of safe humanitarian and relief corridors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gaza is in the midst of a spiralling humanitarian crisis after months of war sparked by Hamas&#8217;s unprecedented October 7 attacks on Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman has called in his Ramadan message for the international community to bring an end to the &#8220;heinous crimes&#8221; taking place in Gaza, where Israel&#8217;s war with Hamas has been raging for more than five months. Speaking as custodian of Islam&#8217;s two holiest sites, King Salman gave thanks on Sunday for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[761],"class_list":["post-49112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-saudi-king-calls-for-end-to-heinous-crimes-in-gaza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}