{"id":12486,"date":"2014-01-02T14:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T14:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12486"},"modified":"2014-01-02T14:19:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T14:19:04","slug":"palestinian-ambassador-to-prague-killed-in-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12486","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian ambassador to Prague killed in explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/praguepalestine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12487\" alt=\"praguepalestine\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/praguepalestine.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/praguepalestine.jpg 299w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/praguepalestine-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 85vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>Jamal al-Jamal, the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic, died Wednesday after an explosion went off in his Prague residence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There has been a detonation of a so far unidentified explosive mixture,&#8221; a police spokeswoman said. &#8220;The ambassador was &#8230; taken to hospital with serious injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Jamal died shortly after arriving at the hospital.\u00a0Dr Daniel Langer, who works there, told public television that al-Jamal had suffered serious abdominal injuries, as well as injuries to his chest and head.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cause of the explosion is not yet known and Czech officials said it may have been the result of an accident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Czech police said the ambassador died of his injuries in hospital after the explosion on the morning of New Year&#8217;s Day in the two-storey suburban residence. No one else was injured, police said, although Jamal&#8217;s family was at home at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The safe was recently moved from the old embassy building, but it had come from a building that used to house the Palestinian Liberation Organisation&#8217;s offices in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malki told The Associated Press news agency: &#8220;The ambassador wanted to know what is in the safe. He opened it and asked his wife to bring a paper and a pen to write down the contents of the safe. She left him to bring (the) pen and paper. During that time, she heard the sound of an explosion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Palestinian Foreign Ministry said it would send a delegation to Prague &#8220;to help with the investigation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Jamal was born in 1957, in Beirut&#8217;s Sabra and Shatilla refugee camp. His family is originally from Jaffa in what is now Israel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He joined Fatah in 1975 and was appointed deputy ambassador in Bulgaria in 1979.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starting in 1984, he served as a diplomat in Prague, eventually as acting ambassador. From 2005-2013, he served as consul general in Alexandria, Egypt. In October 2013, he was appointed ambassador in Prague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamal al-Jamal, the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic, died Wednesday after an explosion went off in his Prague residence. &#8220;There has been a detonation of a so far unidentified explosive mixture,&#8221; a police spokeswoman said. &#8220;The ambassador was &#8230; taken to hospital with serious injuries.&#8221; Al-Jamal died shortly after arriving at the hospital.\u00a0Dr Daniel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12486\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Palestinian ambassador to Prague killed in explosion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[7924,4268,7925,7923,7922],"class_list":["post-12486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-czech-republic","tag-explosion","tag-jamal-al-jamal","tag-palestinian-ambassador","tag-prague"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/praguepalestine.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12488,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions\/12488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}