{"id":52288,"date":"2024-05-16T17:08:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T07:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=52288"},"modified":"2024-05-16T17:08:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T07:08:51","slug":"arab-leaders-head-to-bahrain-for-gaza-focused-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=52288","title":{"rendered":"Arab leaders head to Bahrain for Gaza-focused summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arab leaders are gathering Thursday in Bahrain for a summit dominated by the Israel-Hamas war which has been raging in the Gaza Strip without a ceasefire in sight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heads of state and government began touching down on Wednesday in Manama, capital of the Gulf nation, where the flags of the Arab League&#8217;s 22 members were flying.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time the bloc has come together since an extraordinary summit in Riyadh, capital of neighbouring Saudi Arabia, in November that also involved leaders from the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, based in the Saudi city of Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p>At that meeting, leaders condemned Israeli forces&#8217; &#8220;barbaric&#8221; actions in Gaza but declined to approve punitive economic and political steps against the country, despite growing anger in the region and widespread support for the Palestinian cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arab leaders are gathering Thursday in Bahrain for a summit dominated by the Israel-Hamas war which has been raging in the Gaza Strip without a ceasefire in sight. Heads of state and government began touching down on Wednesday in Manama, capital of the Gulf nation, where the flags of the Arab League&#8217;s 22 members were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1496],"class_list":["post-52288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-arab-leaders-head-to-bahrain-for-gaza-focused-summit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52288","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=52288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52288\/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=52288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}