{"id":593644,"date":"2023-10-09T02:13:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T23:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/booker-says-hes-shaken-from-hamas-attacks\/"},"modified":"2023-10-09T02:13:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T23:13:07","slug":"booker-says-hes-shaken-from-hamas-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/booker-says-hes-shaken-from-hamas-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"#Booker says he\u2019s \u2018shaken\u2019 from Hamas attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/bookercory_092623gn01_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Sunday he is \u201cshaken\u201d from Hamas\u2019s attacks on Israel after he and his staff were forced to shelter in place while in Jerusalem on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in Israel when the horrific attacks carried out by Hamas started on Saturday,\u201d Booker wrote Sunday in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoryBooker\/status\/1711132186638791155?t=d2XBRsza7ij4y2PhsXithw&amp;s=19\">post on X<\/a>, the platform formerly known as <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. \u201cMy team and I are now safe, but like many we are shaken, angered, and heartbroken by the hundreds killed, the thousands injured, those taken hostage, and all who are directly affected by these sickening terrorist attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In a video posted to X, Booker recounted being in Jerusalem on a run when Hamas\u2019s attacks began and he was advised to get back to his hotel. The New Jersey Democrat said he joined others in a bomb shelter in the stairwell of the hotel. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrightened faces, there were children and elderly, families, many Americans,\u201d Booker said. \u201cThere was a sense of fear and worry and a knowledge to many of us that there were horrific things going on around the country at that time.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Booker\u2019s office confirmed earlier Sunday he and his staff departed Israel on Sunday, cutting his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> short in the wake of the violence. Booker arrived in the country last Friday and had plans to stay through at least Tuesday, when he had a scheduled talk about regional economic integration, his spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>Hamas launched the largest attack on Israel in decades early Saturday, sending forces into multiple Israeli towns, along with a bombardment of rocket fire in a surprise offensive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The death toll has surpassed 1,100, with thousands more Israelis and Palestinians wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Booker called for a rejection of those using \u201cterror as a weapon.\u201d <\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe who believe in peace and freedom and human rights, for Palestinians, for Israelis, for all humankind, must reject those who use terror as their weapon,\u201d Booker said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. 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Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Sunday he is \u201cshaken\u201d from Hamas\u2019s attacks on Israel after he and his staff were forced to shelter in place while in Jerusalem on Saturday. \u201cI was in Israel when the horrific attacks carried out by Hamas started on Saturday,\u201d Booker wrote Sunday in a post on X, the platform&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/bookercory_092623gn01_w.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134418,96072,10574,90482,124783,115,4965],"class_list":["post-593644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-congress-blog","tag-cory-booker","tag-education","tag-house","tag-international","tag-news","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}