{"id":11591,"date":"2017-11-16T12:57:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T12:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=11591"},"modified":"2017-11-16T12:57:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T12:57:47","slug":"yemeni-hospitals-will-run-out-of-fuel-in-three-weeks-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/yemeni-hospitals-will-run-out-of-fuel-in-three-weeks-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni hospitals will run out of fuel in three weeks: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The UN has warned that Yemeni hospitals\u00a0will run out of fuel within three weeks unless Saudi Arabia removes its blockade on the war-torn country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, UN spokesman Farhan Haq stressed that fuel is critical to the hospitals for generating electricity as well as\u00a0pumping and purifying water.<\/p>\n<p>He added that stocks of diphtheria vaccines will become depleted within two weeks unless aid deliveries resume.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the UN\u00a0Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)\u00a0has announced that prices have soared in the Yemeni capital, Sana\u2019a, since the Saudis tightened their blockade.<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2017\/11\/15\/542306\/Yemen-war-UN-famine-\">\n<div class=\"oembed\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/media.presstv.com\/photo\/20171115\/b898f29e-1b2f-49de-9551-02e253a7d363.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"title\">PressTV-&#8216;Yemenis besieged from abroad, blockaded at home&#8217;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The humanitarian crisis in Yemen worsens as the regime in Riyadh and its allies tighten the screws on Yemen&#8217;s ports.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric\u00a0stressed that &#8220;seven million people are already on the brink of famine, and the blockade will only bring them closer to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Yemen\u2019s Ministry of Human Rights has released a statement\u00a0slamming the UN for its inability to pressure Riyadh into ending the blockade.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20171115\/7f77af90-9746-4916-a14f-75ed6cc43237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"250\" \/><figcaption>A Yemeni man stands next to a navigation station at Sana\u2019a International Airport that was destroyed in Saudi airstrikes on the Yemeni capital on November 15, 2017.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>It added that the UN\u2019s inaction amounts to a green light for the Saudis to continue with attacks on Yemen and violate international law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia announced that it was shutting down Yemen\u2019s air, sea, and land borders, after Yemeni fighters targeted an international airport near the Saudi capital with a cruise missile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN has warned that Yemeni hospitals\u00a0will run out of fuel within three weeks unless Saudi Arabia removes its blockade on the war-torn country. On Wednesday, UN spokesman Farhan Haq stressed that fuel is critical to the hospitals for generating electricity as well as\u00a0pumping and purifying water. He added that stocks of diphtheria vaccines will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11591","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\/11591","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=11591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11593,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11591\/revisions\/11593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}