{"id":2564,"date":"2016-05-16T08:45:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T08:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2016-05-16T08:45:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T08:45:37","slug":"crowe-marks-nakba-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-marks-nakba-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe marks Nakba Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article>\n<h1>Crowe marks Nakba Day<\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has marked Nakba Day by calling on the Irish Government to do more to assist and support Palestinian refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Nakba, which means catastrophe in Arabic, occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1948 Palestine war. Nakba Day commemorates these events and raises awareness of the current plight that faces Palestinian refugees and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to commend all those who turned out in Dublin today to commemorate and mark the Nakba.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important that today we commemorate and remember the more than 700,000 Palestinians who were forced to flee from their homes during the 1948 Palestine war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince 1948, Israel has denied these Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homeland, despite UN Resolutions 194 and international law upholding this right of return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately the policy of forced displacement of Palestinians continues today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Palestinian refugee and displaced population remains the largest in the world. Many now live in exile while others are internally displaced because of actions of the Israeli military, which continues to occupy Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is estimated that up to 70% of the Palestinian population have experienced displacement at least once in their lives, with many experience it a number of times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am calling on the Irish Government to ensure that it presses Israel to end the ongoing forced displacement of Palestinians and to abide by international law and the right of Palestinian refugees to return the their homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe marks Nakba Day Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has marked Nakba Day by calling on the Irish Government to do more to assist and support Palestinian refugees. Nakba, which means catastrophe in Arabic, occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1948 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}