{"id":11948,"date":"2018-08-18T09:27:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T09:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11948"},"modified":"2018-08-18T09:27:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T09:27:16","slug":"houthi-militia-in-yemen-storm-world-food-program-warehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11948","title":{"rendered":"Houthi militia in Yemen \u2018storm\u2019 World Food Program warehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1358116\/middle-east\" readability=\"65\">\n<p>\nCAIRO: A Yemeni minister has accused Houthi militants of storming a warehouse used by the World Food Program to store humanitarian aid in Hodeidah.<\/p>\n<p>\nAbdel-Raqeeb Fateh, the minister of local administration, said on Friday that the Houthis have turned the WFP warehouse in Al-Durayhimi district into a military barracks, AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>\nHodeida, Yemen\u2019s largest port, has become the center of the fighting between pro-government forces and the Iran-backed Houthis, who seized the capital Sanaa in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\nFateh added that thousands of families were caught in the district&#8217;s crossfire between the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition forces fighting them.<\/p>\n<p>\nFateh said the Houthis are intimidating humanitarian workers and called for a condemnation from the UN.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia, is supporting the government troops in the battle to recapture Hodeidah and restore the government.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe\u00a0Saudi-led coalition accused the Houthis of carrying out a mortar attack on a hospital and fish market in Yemen earlier this month that killed at least 55 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThe UN on Friday said it had invited the Yemeni government and the Houthis to peace talks in Geneva on September 6.<\/p>\n<p>\nUN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths said earlier this month he would convene the talks to try and bring an end to the three-year conflict has killed more than 10,000 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO: A Yemeni minister has accused Houthi militants of storming a warehouse used by the World Food Program to store humanitarian aid in Hodeidah. Abdel-Raqeeb Fateh, the minister of local administration, said on Friday that the Houthis have turned the WFP warehouse in Al-Durayhimi district into a military barracks, AP reported. Hodeida, Yemen\u2019s largest port,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}