{"id":9222,"date":"2024-02-12T05:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T16:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9222"},"modified":"2024-02-12T05:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T16:11:04","slug":"israel-gaza-war-warnings-mount-as-israel-plans-rafah-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9222","title":{"rendered":"Israel-Gaza war: Warnings mount as Israel plans Rafah offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is facing growing international warnings over its planned offensive in Rafah &#8211; the city in southern Gaza crammed with Palestinian refugees.<\/p>\n<p>UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron said &#8220;over half of Gaza&#8217;s population are sheltering in the area&#8221;, while Dutch FM Hanke Bruins Slot said there could be &#8220;many civilian casualties&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia warned of &#8220;very serious repercussions&#8221; if Rafah was stormed.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winson Peters has also voiced his concern.<\/p>\n<p>In a post to X (formerly Twitter), Peters said New Zealand has been clear from the outset that the protection of civilians was paramount.<\/p>\n<p>He said the humanitarian consequences of a ground offensive would be appalling.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is facing growing international warnings over its planned offensive in Rafah &#8211; the city in southern Gaza crammed with Palestinian refugees. UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron said &#8220;over half of Gaza&#8217;s population are sheltering in the area&#8221;, while Dutch FM Hanke Bruins Slot said there could be &#8220;many civilian casualties&#8221;. Saudi Arabia warned of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9224,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9222\/revisions\/9224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}