{"id":79506,"date":"2014-04-11T16:45:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=79506"},"modified":"2014-04-11T16:45:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:45:48","slug":"swiss-say-palestinians-can-join-geneva-conventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=79506","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Say Palestinians Can Join Geneva Conventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Palestinian-President-Mahmoud-Abbas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-79504\" alt=\"Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Palestinian-President-Mahmoud-Abbas.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Palestinian-President-Mahmoud-Abbas.jpg 624w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Palestinian-President-Mahmoud-Abbas-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Palestinian-President-Mahmoud-Abbas-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a>Twenty-five years after making their first bid for membership, the Palestinians can join the Geneva Conventions governing the rules of war and military occupations, the Swiss government said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Israel had opposed the move, arguing that there is no universally recognized Palestinian state and that it would complicate peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the United Nations said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accepted Palestinian applications to join 13 other U.N. conventions.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland, as the depositary of the Geneva Conventions, said &#8220;the state of Palestine&#8221; acceded to the conventions effective April 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five years after making their first bid for membership, the Palestinians can join the Geneva&#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":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79506","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=79506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}