{"id":9913,"date":"2025-06-09T06:57:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T06:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=9913"},"modified":"2025-06-09T06:57:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T06:57:58","slug":"us-muslim-group-says-israeli-attack-on-madleen-a-blatant-act-of-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=9913","title":{"rendered":"US Muslim group says Israeli attack on Madleen a \u2018blatant act\u2019 of piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned Israel seizing the Freedom Flotilla ship and its crew, Al Jazeera reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly condemn the cowardly and illegal Israeli attack on the Madleen\u2019s as it approached Gaza with desperately-need humanitarian supplies,\u201d said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a blatant act of international piracy and state terrorism,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Israeli occupation has no legal right to blockade the Gaza coast, much less to drop chemical weapons on humanitarian aid boats and abduct their passengers in international waters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Awad called on the Israeli government to immediately release the ship\u2019s crew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe applaud Greta Thunberg and the other activists of the Madleen who bravely risked their safety and freedom to help the starving people of Gaza,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned Israel seizing the Freedom Flotilla ship and its crew, Al Jazeera reports. \u201cWe strongly condemn the cowardly and illegal Israeli attack on the Madleen\u2019s as it approached Gaza with desperately-need humanitarian supplies,\u201d said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad. \u201cThis is a blatant act of international piracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9913","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\/9913","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=9913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9915,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions\/9915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}