{"id":18747,"date":"2014-08-08T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T01:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=18747"},"modified":"2014-08-06T10:35:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T02:35:15","slug":"video-by-palestinian-student-in-local-media-to-raise-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=18747","title":{"rendered":"Video by Palestinian student in local media to raise awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By<\/em> Shawal Ras<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK: A video on a plea for help by a Palestinian student from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) made its way to Malaysia&#8217;s mainstream media recently appealing to the audience for support to the Palestinians&#8217; sufferings in Gaza following attacks by the Israeli forces.<\/p>\n<p>The video became a trending topic in Twitter and Facebook and began appearing in various media outlets, including Astro Awani.<\/p>\n<p>The student featured in the video, Hassan Radwan, was born and raised in Malaysia. He was fluent in Arabic, English, as well as Bahasa Malaysia, as seen in the video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could not stand seeing my people getting killed and massacred. I felt helpless while seeing them on news. So I asked myself what&#8217;s the best way to raise awareness and so I came up with this idea,&#8221; Hassan said in an email interview.<\/p>\n<p>Gaza is currently under severe attack by the Zionist regime, Israel. More than one thousand Palestinians, including children, have been killed since fighting broke out in July.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan Radwan is currently in West Bank, Palestine.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QhxUpvZkSHY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shawal Ras GOMBAK: A video on a plea for help by a Palestinian student from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) made its way to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18747"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18871,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18747\/revisions\/18871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}