{"id":867512,"date":"2025-08-23T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/dirco-accuses-local-journalist-of-publishing-unverified-hogwash\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:13:08","slug":"dirco-accuses-local-journalist-of-publishing-unverified-hogwash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/dirco-accuses-local-journalist-of-publishing-unverified-hogwash\/","title":{"rendered":"DIRCO accuses local journalist of publishing &#8216;unverified hogwash&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRETORIA &#8211; The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has refuted claims that the government knew of Hamas plans to attack Israel on 7 October 2023. Spokesperson Chrispin Phiri has told eNCA that local journalist, Paula Slier, who published a blog for the Times of Israel, had repeated unverified and questionable claims made by a<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/top-stories\/government-had-no-knowledge-october-7-hamas-attack-dirco\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Sandile Zikhali<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRETORIA &#8211; The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has refuted claims that the government knew of Hamas plans to attack Israel on 7 October 2023. Spokesperson Chrispin Phiri has told eNCA that local journalist, Paula Slier, who published a blog for the Times of Israel, had repeated unverified and questionable claims made by a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":867513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,145773,192],"tags":[5794,145772],"class_list":{"0":"post-867512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-accuses","8":"category-dirco","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-accuses","11":"tag-dirco"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}