{"id":10479,"date":"2025-06-29T01:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T01:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=10479"},"modified":"2025-06-29T01:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T01:01:51","slug":"public-outrage-over-israels-aid-blockade-has-not-led-to-government-action-european-mep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=10479","title":{"rendered":"Public outrage over Israel\u2019s aid blockade has not led to government action: European MEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The images that have emerged over the past few weeks of Palestinians being starved by Israel\u2019s blockade of Gaza have been \u201cimpossible for any politician anywhere in the world to defend\u201d, Lynn Boylan, an Irish member of the European Parliament representing Sinn Fein, tells Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>Even in countries such as Germany, which has been a staunch ally of Israel, citizens have been contacting their politicians and saying, \u201cthis must stop\u201d, she noted, adding \u201cunfortunately, then we\u2019ve seen the distraction of [Israel\u2019s conflict with] Iran, and the focus moved away from Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boylan said the daily footage of Palestinians being targeted at the aid distribution sites as they \u201cdesperately try to get food and water for their children and themselves\u201d has now become normalised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe commentary that we heard was as a direct result of both the imagery and the people power and putting pressure on the German government \u2026 hasn\u2019t manifested\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The images that have emerged over the past few weeks of Palestinians being starved by Israel\u2019s blockade of Gaza have been \u201cimpossible for any politician anywhere in the world to defend\u201d, Lynn Boylan, an Irish member of the European Parliament representing Sinn Fein, tells Al Jazeera. Even in countries such as Germany, which has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10481,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479\/revisions\/10481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}