{"id":5202,"date":"2022-08-24T23:52:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T17:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=5202"},"modified":"2022-08-24T23:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T17:52:49","slug":"palestinian-authority-urges-palestinians-not-to-use-israeli-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/world\/2022\/08\/24\/news\/5202\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Authority urges Palestinians not to use Israeli airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5203\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5203\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/port-1-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The move has been heavily criticized by many Palestinian activists who say it does nothing to ease the severe travel restrictions. (File\/AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>GAZA, Broadcasting news corporation : The Palestinian Authority urged Palestinians not to take advantage of concessions promised by Israel that would allow them to travel through Ramon aiport in southern Israel, saying they should have their own airport. Israel\u2019s Airports Authority this month said Palestinians from the occupied West Bank would be offered special flights from Ramon, near the Red Sea resort city of Eilat, to destinations in Turkey. The move followed pressure from the United States to ease some of the strict travel restrictions which prevent Palestinians from using Israeli airports \u2014 including Ben Gurion, Israel\u2019s main international hub \u2014 without special permission. Palestinians traveling abroad frequently do so through neighboring Jordan but there are often long delays at the border crossing. \u201cShould the occupation want to ease up for the Palestinians, let them open Jerusalem Airport,\u201d Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said, referring to the now-disused Qalandia airport in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. The airport, seized by Israel after the 1967 war which brought the West Bank area under its control, closed in 2000. Israel\u2019s offer to allow Palestinians to use Ramon for some flights has been heavily criticized by many Palestinian activists who say it does nothing to ease the severe travel restrictions. Asked about a charter flight carrying Palestinian passengers to Cyprus through Ramon this week, Moussa Rahal, a spokesman for th Palestinian ministry of transport said: \u201cNational duty compels us not to travel through Ramon airport, and we advise them not to go there.\u201d NEWS COLLECTED FROM ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAZA, Broadcasting news corporation : The Palestinian Authority urged Palestinians not to take advantage of concessions promised by Israel that would allow them to travel through Ramon aiport in southern Israel, saying they should have their own airport. Israel\u2019s Airports Authority this month said Palestinians from the occupied West Bank would be offered special flights &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5204,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions\/5204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}