{"id":483882,"date":"2026-06-18T15:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483882\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:57:25","slug":"winston-peters-accosted-by-protesters-at-parliament-over-israels-war-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483882\/","title":{"rendered":"Winston Peters accosted by protesters at Parliament over Israel\u2019s war in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Peters, after listening to the protester, turned around in his chair and replied: \u201cJust answer this question, when those people got off the boat and they were treated by their own people, none of them were judged to be brutalised \u2013 how come they were brutalised when they came in front of you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">The protester was escorted from the committee by Parliamentary security. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Another protester, who was also escorted away, described Peters as a \u201cparticipant of war\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cYou are a war criminal \u2013 you know that. I hope you don\u2019t sleep at night,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">She called Peters an \u201ca***hole\u201d as she left the room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHow did that happen?\u201d Peters said to the committee as it resumed after the disruption. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peters, after listening to the protester, turned around in his chair and replied: \u201cJust answer this question, when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91729,16751,11730,27605,1975,9218,3595,29136,17752,4756,16945,78,46663,6722,111,43,139,69,1523,24637,17317,6729,25394,25266,92144,1961,6149,6728],"class_list":["post-483882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accosted","tag-affairs","tag-afternoon","tag-appearance","tag-at","tag-before","tag-by","tag-committee","tag-disrupted","tag-foreign","tag-gaza","tag-in","tag-israels","tag-minister","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-parliament","tag-parliaments","tag-peters","tag-protest","tag-protesters","tag-select","tag-this","tag-war","tag-winston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}