{"id":6762,"date":"2014-08-06T11:38:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T11:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/08\/06\/gaza-billboard-on-birmingham-streets\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:54:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:54:38","slug":"gaza-billboard-on-birmingham-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/06\/gaza-billboard-on-birmingham-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Billboard On Birmingham Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A grandad from Leicester has printed his own billboard and parked it in a Birmingham street to highlight the suffering of children in the conflict in Gaza.<\/div>\n

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\"\"Saleem Mohammed took a stand against the British media\u2019s coverage of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, stating that he was \u201cvery disappointed in the media.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhen you see children being bombed in schools and hospitals, no words can explain how this makes me feel.\u201d<\/div>\n

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His billboard aims to bring to the public\u2019s attention the atrocities suffered by Palestinian children at the hands of Israel\u2019s military and he wants as many people to see it as possible. <\/div>\n

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Displaying images of injured and suffering Palestinian children, the billboard has been parked in a Sparkbrook road for two days. <\/div>\n

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\u201cMy heart bleeds for them. Children are playing on the beach and getting bombed. It is a massacre.\u201d<\/div>\n

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The 50-year-old grandad had participated in demonstrations in London, but decided to do more when he saw images on social media of the \u201cmassacre of children\u201d and decided to do more to highlight their deaths.<\/div>\n

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\"\"Ten days ago he took matters into his own hands. Purchasing his own billboard, he printed images of injured and suffering children and brought the billboard to Birmingham. He stated: \u201cBirmingham is the Second City so I brought it here to get as much exposure as possible.<\/div>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t want to look back in ten years time and think I could have done more. I can\u2019t physically go over there to help them, so this is my personal protest.<\/div>\n

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\u201cForget the human rights aspects of this – we wouldn\u2019t treat our animals like this.<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt is not about the politics for me, it is about the children.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Now Saleem intends to take his billboard around the country to spread his message further.<\/div>\n

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Grandad Buys a Billboard to Highlight Suffering of Palestinian Children A grandad from Leicester has printed his own billboard and parked it in a Birmingham street to highlight the suffering of children in the conflict in Gaza. \u00a0 Saleem Mohammed took a stand against the British media\u2019s coverage of the conflict between Israel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}