{"id":30486,"date":"2023-11-14T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=30486"},"modified":"2023-11-14T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T12:49:07","slug":"protesters-in-austin-calls-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza-halt-u-s-aid-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/30486","title":{"rendered":"Protesters in Austin calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza, halt U.S. Aid to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austin: Thousands gathered at the state capitol in Austin this weekend and marched the streets to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Attendees also called for an end to both U.S. Aid to Israel and to what they call a 17-year siege of Gaza.<\/p>\n

According to the Palestinian Youth Movement and partnering organizers, the protest was the largest in favor of Palestinians in Texas history.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was a continuation of what we saw in D.C. a week ago, where we saw hundreds of thousands of people on the streets in D.C., Declaring that this is just the beginning and that they want to escalate until they get what they want, which is a cease fire,\u201d says Palestinian Youth Movement Member Nashwa Abdulawahed.<\/p>\n

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Thousands lined the streets to protest the deadly bombings in Gaza and demand an immediate ceasefire to end what Abdulawahed calls a 17-year siege.<\/p>\n

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Abdulawahed adds, \u201cI think the hardest part of all of this has been seeing the way people are treated, the way people, the way the Palestinian people have been talked about in order to justify their genocide. What we\u2019ve seen is, is the worst of humanity in Gaza.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Austin: Thousands gathered at the state capitol in Austin this weekend and marched the streets to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Attendees also called for an end to both U.S. Aid to Israel and to what they call a 17-year siege of Gaza. According to the Palestinian Youth Movement and partnering organizers, the protest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,32,1477,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-pakistan","category-palestine","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30492,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30486\/revisions\/30492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}