{"id":11116,"date":"2017-11-07T05:31:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T05:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=11116"},"modified":"2017-11-07T05:31:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T05:31:30","slug":"un-saudi-blockade-hindering-aid-delivery-to-starving-yemenis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/un-saudi-blockade-hindering-aid-delivery-to-starving-yemenis\/","title":{"rendered":"UN: Saudi blockade hindering aid delivery to starving Yemenis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United Nations has said that Saudi Arabia\u2019s decision to shut down Yemen\u2019s air, sea and land borders has prevented the UN from sending aid to the war-torn country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were no flight clearances granted to our flights today\u2026We expected to have two flights going and those are on hold for now,&#8221; said UN spokesman Farhan Haq on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He added that UN officials are currently trying to persuade the Saudis to permit aid delivery to Yemen, where some seven million people are suffering from severe malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the kingdom announced that it is shutting down all Yemen\u2019s air, sea, and land border, after Yemen targeted an international airport near the Saudi capital.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2017\/11\/05\/541023\/yemen-missile-ballistic-riyadh-long-range\">\n<div class=\"oembed\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/media.presstv.com\/photo\/20171105\/3a849deb-34ab-497e-b3dc-a4ab19d0aec1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"title\">PressTV-Riyadh airport hit with Borkan H2 missile: Yemen<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yemen&#8217;s army has confirmed that it targeted Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Khalid international airport with a long distance Borkan H2 missile.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Yemeni army on Sunday, said that it had targeted Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh with a long distance Borkan H2 ballistic missile.<\/p>\n<p>Riyadh also put some 40 high-ranking Ansarullah movement officials on a terrorists&#8217; list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations has said that Saudi Arabia\u2019s decision to shut down Yemen\u2019s air, sea and land borders has prevented the UN from sending aid to the war-torn country. &#8220;There were no flight clearances granted to our flights today\u2026We expected to have two flights going and those are on hold for now,&#8221; said UN spokesman &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11118,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116\/revisions\/11118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}