{"id":76028,"date":"2026-07-12T16:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/us-congressman-says-idf-is-lying-about-his-detention-by-settlers-and-soldiers\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T16:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:54:54","slug":"us-congressman-says-idf-is-lying-about-his-detention-by-settlers-and-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/us-congressman-says-idf-is-lying-about-his-detention-by-settlers-and-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"US congressman says \u2018IDF is lying\u2019 about his detention by settlers and soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli ambassador to US accuses Ro Khanna of political stunt to distract from support for Graham Platner<\/p>\n<p>Ro Khanna accused the Israeli government and military of \u201clying\u201d on Sunday about the US congressman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/11\/ro-khanna-congressman-detained-israel-settlers-west-bank\">detention by armed settlers and Israeli soldiers<\/a> during a recent visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Khanna \u2013 a California Democrat \u2013 had posted video evidence on social media of Israeli settlers and soldiers blocking the path of his convoy on Wednesday in the South Hebron hills, near the village of Zanuta, where Israelis have driven Palestinians from their homes in what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/reports\/erasing-anything-palestinian-israels-ethnic-cleansing-of-west-bank-bedouin-and-herding-communities\/\">Amnesty International calls<\/a> a government-backed \u201cethnic cleansing campaign\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/12\/ro-khanna-israel-detention-reaction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli ambassador to US accuses Ro Khanna of political stunt to distract from support for Graham Platner Ro Khanna accused the Israeli government and military of \u201clying\u201d on Sunday about the US congressman\u2019s detention by armed settlers and Israeli soldiers during a recent visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Khanna \u2013 a California Democrat \u2013 &#8230; <a title=\"US congressman says \u2018IDF is lying\u2019 about his detention by settlers and soldiers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/us-congressman-says-idf-is-lying-about-his-detention-by-settlers-and-soldiers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US congressman says \u2018IDF is lying\u2019 about his detention by settlers and soldiers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}