{"id":15484,"date":"2018-12-04T05:31:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T05:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=15484"},"modified":"2018-12-04T05:31:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T05:31:08","slug":"riyadh-submits-to-ansarullah-demand-to-evacuate-injured-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/riyadh-submits-to-ansarullah-demand-to-evacuate-injured-fighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Riyadh Submits to Ansarullah Demand to Evacuate Injured Fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Local Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saudi Arabia submitted to Yemen&#8217;s demands to evacuate 50 wounded Ansarullah fighters to Oman for treatment ahead of new UN-brokered peace talks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A UN-chartered plane will arrive at Sana\u2019a airport Monday to evacuate the wounded revolutionaries accompanied by three Yemeni doctors and a UN doctor, Saudi military spokesman Turki al-Maliki said.<\/p>\n<p>The evacuation of the wounded fighters has been a key condition of the Ansarullah movement to attend peace talks in Sweden this week.<\/p>\n<p>Previous peace negotiations broke down in September after Saudi Arabia refused to allow an Ansarullah delegation to fly to Geneva to attend the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Maliki said the kingdom had agreed to a UN request to facilitate the medical evacuation &#8220;for humanitarian considerations and as part of confidence-building measures&#8221; ahead of the talks.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has been leading a ferocious military campaign against Yemen since 2015 without any tangible achievement. The kingdom&#8217;s latest push to seize Hudaydah ahead of peace talks hit a brick wall as the strategic port&#8217;s protectors put up a fierce resistance.<\/p>\n<p>The Ansarullah movement and the UN were not immediately available to comment on the Saudi military announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Yemeni protesters slammed Saudi Arabia for its purported refusal to allow an Ansarullah delegation to attend the Geneva peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>The negotiations were expected to take place this week, but UN chief Antonio Guterres played down the early December schedule and said he hoped talks would start &#8220;this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Editor Saudi Arabia submitted to Yemen&#8217;s demands to evacuate 50 wounded Ansarullah fighters to Oman for treatment ahead of new UN-brokered peace talks. A UN-chartered plane will arrive at Sana\u2019a airport Monday to evacuate the wounded revolutionaries accompanied by three Yemeni doctors and a UN doctor, Saudi military spokesman Turki al-Maliki said. The evacuation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484","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=15484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15486,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15484\/revisions\/15486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}