{"id":131185,"date":"2018-04-10T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=131185"},"modified":"2018-04-11T16:50:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T20:50:25","slug":"unesco-director-general-condemns-killing-of-press-photographer-yaser-murtaja-statement","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unesco-director-general-condemns-killing-of-press-photographer-yaser-murtaja-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO Director-General Condemns Killing of Press Photographer Yaser Murtaja &#8211; Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><strong><span class=\"date-display-single\">10 April 2018<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, today condemned the killing of Palestinian photographer Yaser Murtaja who died on 7 April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI condemn the killing of Yaser Murtaja and welcome the decision of the Israeli authorities to investigate this killing\u201d, said the Director-General.<\/p>\n<p>Yaser Murtaja was allegedly shot by Israeli soldiers while he was covering Palestinian protests on the Israeli border on 6 April and died from his injuries the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Murtaja had freelanced for television network\u00a0<em>Al Jazeera<\/em>\u00a0and served as a cameraman for\u00a0<em>Human Flow,\u00a0<\/em>the 2017 documentary on the global refugee crisis directed by renowned Chinese visual artist Ai Weiwei.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 April 2018 The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, today condemned the killing of Palestinian photographer Yaser Murtaja who died on 7 April. \u201cI condemn the killing of Yaser Murtaja and welcome the decision of the Israeli authorities to investigate this killing\u201d, said the Director-General. Yaser Murtaja was allegedly shot by Israeli soldiers while he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unesco-director-general-condemns-killing-of-press-photographer-yaser-murtaja-statement\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[897],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[2497],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1829,2441,2005,1857,2145,2385,1781],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-131185","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-israel","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-educational-scientific-and-cultural-organization-unesco","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-education-and-culture","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-public-information","document-subject-security-issues","document-subject-separation-barrier","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/131185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/131185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=131185"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=131185"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=131185"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=131185"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=131185"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=131185"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=131185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}