{"id":113,"date":"2004-07-17T00:13:29","date_gmt":"2004-07-17T05:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=113"},"modified":"2004-08-27T12:17:30","modified_gmt":"2004-08-27T17:17:30","slug":"arafats-panel-declares-state-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Arafat&#8217;s Panel Declares State of Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the Palestinian Authority in a <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;e=2&#038;u=\/ap\/20040717\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/israel_palestinians\" target=\"_blank\">more dire position than I thought<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A security panel headed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news &#8211; web sites) declared a state of emergency in the Gaza Strip (news &#8211; web sites) early Saturday after a wave of kidnappings involving a Palestinian police chief, a security official and four French citizens.<\/p>\n<p> Although most of the hostages were later freed, the crisis raised questions about the future of Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia&#8217;s government, which will meet Saturday in a session that could determine its future, a Palestinian official said on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration by the Palestinian security council called for increased protection around government facilities and canceled all leave for security officials.<\/p>\n<p>The deteriorating situation reflected the growing disagreements among militant groups and individuals trying to strengthen their positions before Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news &#8211; web sites) fulfills his pledge to withdraw Israeli forces and some 7,500 settlers from Gaza late next year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can dance with the Devil but, sometimes, he wants to lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the Palestinian Authority in a more dire position than I thought? A security panel headed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news &#8211; web sites) declared a state of emergency in the Gaza Strip (news &#8211; web sites) early Saturday after a wave of kidnappings involving a Palestinian police chief, a security official and four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}