{"id":10644,"date":"2009-01-11T18:05:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T18:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fierce_fighting_in_gaza_city\/"},"modified":"2009-01-11T18:05:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T18:05:59","slug":"fierce_fighting_in_gaza_city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10644","title":{"rendered":"Fierce Fighting in Gaza City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli troops pushed into a heavily populated area of Gaza City from the south early on Sunday in what the army and locals described as fierce fighting. In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the nation that Israel is \u201cgetting close to achieving the goals it set for itself,\u201d\u009d but that \u201cmore patience, determination and effort is still demanded.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Olmert was speaking in the public part of the regular Sunday cabinet meeting, and his words were broadcast to an Israeli public that supports the war against Hamas in Gaza but is unquiet about how and when it will end.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Mr. Olmert gave no time frame for the conflict, but said that Israel \u201cmust not miss out, at the last moment, on what has been achieved through an unprecedented national effort.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/12\/world\/middleeast\/12mideast.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli troops pushed into a heavily populated area of Gaza City from the south early on Sunday in what the army and locals described as fierce fighting. In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the nation that Israel is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10644\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,143,565,203,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}