{"id":520,"date":"2012-09-25T19:05:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T19:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-calls-for-the-end-of-the-gaza-blockade\/"},"modified":"2012-09-25T19:05:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T19:05:20","slug":"crowe-calls-for-the-end-of-the-gaza-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-calls-for-the-end-of-the-gaza-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe calls for the end of the Gaza blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Crowe calls for the end of the Gaza blockade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and the Diaspora,  Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has called for Israel to remove its blockade of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The Dublin South West TD spoke about the SV Estelle which has left  Sweden to break the naval blockade of Gaza by delivering aid and  construction materials. Seventy-nine parliamentarians, including Sinn  F\u00e9in representatives, from across the island have signed a statement  supporting the ship.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe sent a message of support to the crew:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that their non-violent attempts to break the Gaza blockade  are successful. The ship is carrying aid and construction goods which  are needed to overcome the humanitarian emergency in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Israeli blockade of Gaza is illegal under international law and  infringes the human rights of the over 1.6 million citizens. According  to recent reports 80% of the population is dependent on humanitarian aid  and more than 40% of the population is unemployed, as the blockade has  destroyed the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe blockade has ensured that the people of Gaza have been unable to  rebuild hospitals, homes and the water treatment plant, which were  destroyed during the Israeli bombardment of the region in the winter of  2008-2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe blockade has turned Gaza into an open air prison and it is  undermining attempts to create a peace process in the region based on a  two-state solution. I call on Israel to remove the blockade and allow  Gaza to rebuild its infrastructure and its economy and to resolve the  humanitarian crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe calls for the end of the Gaza blockade Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and the Diaspora, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has called for Israel to remove its blockade of Gaza. The Dublin South West TD spoke about the SV Estelle which has left Sweden to break the naval blockade of Gaza by delivering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","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=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}