{"id":49761,"date":"2014-12-11T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/palestinian-physician-honoured-in-sao-paulo\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T17:04:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:04:14","slug":"palestinian-physician-honoured-in-sao-paulo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/palestinian-physician-honoured-in-sao-paulo\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian physician honoured in S\u00e3o Paulo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[{![cemb_9_705994_2]!}]--><\/p>\n<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; The Municipal Chamber of Valinhos, in Brazil&rsquo;s S&atilde;o Paulo state, honoured the Palestinian physician Abdel Latif Hasan last Wednesday evening (10th). He was awarded the title of honorary citizen. The ceremony was attended by the Palestinian ambassador to Bras&iacute;lia, the Brazilian capital, Ibrahim Alzeben.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The fact that a Palestinian is being honoured fulfils us as patriots and as politicians,&rdquo; the diplomat said, according to a statement released by the Municipal Chamber. &ldquo;We will be waiting until Palestine, this land that has given so much to humanity, has its rights and its own territory. The fact that one of our own is being honoured in Valinhos gives us relief, it gives us hope that history will give us our independence and sovereignty,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p><!--[{![cemb_9_705995_1]!}]--><\/p>\n<p>The president of the Chamber, Lourivaldo Messias (affiliated with political party Pros), responsible for the honour, stated that &ldquo;all of those being honoured that evening were completely worthy of the honour.&rdquo; In addition to the physician, two former aldermen were named honorary citizens, Sebasti&atilde;o Maria and Miguel Moreira.<\/p>\n<p>City mayor Clayton Machado, also in attendance, said &ldquo;the history of the three comes down to a single phrase: love has overcome all barriers and all difficulties.&rdquo; &ldquo;The people of Valinhos is an orderly, loving people, and here we have many kind-hearted people such as yourselves,&rdquo; he said, according to the statement. <\/p>\n<p>Abdel Latif Hasan was born in the village of Batir, which adjoins Bethlehem, in the West Bank. He moved to Brazil in 1992 and works at Valinhos&rsquo; public hospital Santa Casa as a staff physician and coordinator of the Adult ICU. According to the Municipal Chamber, the honour is an acknowledgement of the &ldquo;relevant services rendered by the physician to the health of Valinhos residents.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-182567\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdel Latif Hasan was awarded the title of honorary citizen from the Municipal Chamber of Valinhos, in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo. The session was attended by the ambassador of Palestine, Ibrahim Alzeben.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":182567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs"},"wps_subtitle":"Abdel Latif Hasan was awarded the title of honorary citizen from the Municipal Chamber of Valinhos, in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo. The session was attended by the ambassador of Palestine, Ibrahim Alzeben.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}