{"id":12770,"date":"2024-03-07T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T20:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12770"},"modified":"2024-03-07T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T20:30:17","slug":"middle-east-regional-leaders-worry-as-ramadan-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12770","title":{"rendered":"Middle East: Gaza War Worries Regional Leaders as Ramadan Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: Mission Network News, March 5, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior U.S. and Israeli leaders are meeting in Washington this week to discuss the Gaza crisis. The U.S. began humanitarian aid drops this weekend in the latest attempt to alleviate suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamas officials have not agreed to a temporary ceasefire that Israel signed off on, so the war rages on, sending ripple effects throughout the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRemember that whatever is happening in Gaza is affecting not only the surrounding countries but also the whole Middle East\u2014Yemen, Dubai, Jordan, Egypt,\u201d Fadi Sharaiha with the MENA Leadership Center says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll over the Arab world, people are feeling it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The timing of Israel\u2019s potential expansion into Rafah has some Middle Eastern leaders on edge. Ramadan\u2014the Islamic month of fasting\u2014begins the same day Israel vows to begin its assault on Rafah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/gaza-war-worries-regional-leaders-as-ramadan-approaches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story<\/a>. Other sources are also reporting uneasiness across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HJP1xIVhb6k?si=tvB5mrTvAWmYzodH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">take a minute to watch this video from INcontext<\/a> and pray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PRAY FOR ISRAEL &amp; GAZA\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HJP1xIVhb6k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mission Network News, March 5, 2024 Senior U.S. and Israeli leaders are meeting in Washington this week to discuss the Gaza crisis. The U.S. began humanitarian aid drops this weekend in the latest attempt to alleviate suffering. Hamas officials have not agreed to a temporary ceasefire that Israel signed off on, so the war &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12770\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Middle East: Gaza War Worries Regional Leaders as Ramadan Approaches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12772,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770\/revisions\/12772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}