{"id":11146,"date":"2011-08-25T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T07:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/25\/gaza-travel-diary-of-ejaz-khan-25-august-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-08-25T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T07:41:16","slug":"gaza-travel-diary-of-ejaz-khan-25-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/gaza-travel-diary-of-ejaz-khan-25-august-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"GAZA Travel Diary of Ejaz Khan, 25 August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jozi 2 Giza 2 Gaza<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">It was to be an early start, as members of the Africa 1 Aid Convoy made their way to O.R Tambo&nbsp; International airport, from all parts of the country. Finding the co-ordinator, Junaid Van Der Plank was not hard&#8230;The Brother stands over 2 Metres tall, his helpfulness exceeding his height. I glare at my wife Mariam, she is struggling to keep her emotions in tact, and I don&#39;t blame her. In our 9 years together I have never been away from her for longer then 3 days. Now I am about to embark on a mission, a volunteer for the Africa 1 Aid Convoy to Gaza, a once in a lifetime opportunity to visit and help the People of Gaza, with Aid from the South African Muslim population, in solidarity with the Palestinian Struggle, collected by the Al Quds Foundation. <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">The Springs Muslim School encouraged the travellers with Chants of Takbeer and <em>Birr Rooh Bid Damm, Nafdheeka Ya Aqsa!!<\/em> And as scholar by scholar spoke to the gathering group, it dawned on me just how fortunate I really was&#8230; how fortunate we ALL really are to be going to the Land of the Ambiya!<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Follow the Personal Journey of Ejaz Khan with regular Updates&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jozi 2 Giza 2 Gaza It was to be an early start, as members of the Africa 1 Aid Convoy made their way to O.R Tambo&nbsp; International airport, from all parts of the country. Finding the co-ordinator, Junaid Van Der Plank was not hard&#8230;The Brother stands over 2 Metres tall, his helpfulness exceeding his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-2TM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 11:09:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}