{"id":2051,"date":"2015-08-02T14:44:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T19:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2015-08-02T14:44:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T19:44:24","slug":"five-wounded-one-dead-in-attack-on-jerusalem-pride-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2051","title":{"rendered":"Five wounded, one dead in attack on Jerusalem Pride event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Five people were wounded and another person has died as a result of an attack at a Jerusalem Pride event this week. The attacker, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man named?Yishai Schlissel, was released from prison three weeks ago after serving a ten year term for a similar attack. 16 year old Shira Banki died as a result of her wounds. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/08\/02\/victim-of-jerusalem-pride-attack-dies-of-injuries\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the newspaper Maariv, Schlissel wrote a letter ahead of the attack saying: ?It is the obligation of every Jew to keep his soul from punishment and stop this giant desecration of God?s name next Thursday.?<\/p>\n<p>?Once again, the evildoers want to have a parade of sin and of all places, in Jerusalem ? city of the king of kings blessed be he ? in order to defile its holiness and desecrate its holy name on Thursday. They are always looking for ways to desecrate God?s name even more.?<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has released a statement paying tribute to Shira and promising that Schlissel will be subject the ?full extent? Israeli law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Five people were wounded and another person has died as a result of an attack at a Jerusalem Pride event this week. The attacker, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man named?Yishai Schlissel, was released from prison three weeks ago after serving a ten year term for a similar attack. 16 year old Shira [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[242,241,240,94],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-attack","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-pride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}