{"id":100206,"date":"2014-07-30T20:42:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T16:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=100206"},"modified":"2014-07-30T20:42:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T16:42:22","slug":"penelope-cruz-and-javier-bardem-write-open-letter-condemning-israels-actions-as-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=100206","title":{"rendered":"Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem Write Open Letter Condemning Israel&#8217;s Actions as &#8216;Genocide&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bardem-cruz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-100204\" alt=\"bardem-cruz\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bardem-cruz.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bardem-cruz.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bardem-cruz-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bardem-cruz-425x300.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>Some celebrities have voiced their opinion over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aceshowbiz.com\/celebrity\/penelope_cruz\/\">Penelope Cruz<\/a>, her husband, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aceshowbiz.com\/celebrity\/javier_bardem\/\">Javier Bardem<\/a>, and Spanish movie director Pedro Almodovar were among some Spanish stars who described Israel&#8217;s actions against Palestinians in Gaza as &#8220;genocide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Penelope, Javier, Pedro and other Spanish actors, directors and writers wrote an open letter to Spanish-language news wire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europapress.es\/cultura\/cine-00128\/noticia-almodovar-penelope-cruz-bardem-denuncian-genocidio-israeli-franja-gaza-20140728142255.html\" target=\"_blank\">Europa Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group urged Israel to &#8220;lift the blockade, which the Gaza Strip has suffered for more than a decade.&#8221; They also asked the country to &#8220;open border crossings to facilitate the mobility of the population, the entry of medical equipment, medicines and food.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aceshowbiz.com\/celebrity\/madonna\/\">Madonna<\/a> expressed her opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict via Facebook on July 23. She posted a picture of flower arrangements and captioned it with, &#8220;These flowers are like the innocent children of Gaza! Who has a right to destroy them? No one!!! Cease fire! #peaceinthemiddleeast.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some celebrities have voiced their opinion over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Penelope Cruz, her husband, Javier&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}