{"id":13627,"date":"2018-09-02T19:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T19:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13627"},"modified":"2018-09-02T19:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T19:23:29","slug":"airstrike-on-yemen-school-bus-is-apparent-war-crime-says-rights-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13627","title":{"rendered":"Airstrike on Yemen school bus is &#8216;apparent war crime,&#8217; says rights group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A Saudi-led Coalition airstrike on a school bus in Yemen that killed dozens of children last month is an &#8220;apparent war crime,&#8221; Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The attack on a bus carrying dozens of schoolboys on a field trip was later revealed by CNN to have been carried out by an <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/17\/middleeast\/us-saudi-yemen-bus-strike-intl\/index.html\">American-made bomb sold to Saudi Arabia,<\/a> raising questions about whether the United States bears any moral culpability.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;The Saudi-led coalition&#8217;s attack on a bus full of young boys adds to its already gruesome track record of killing civilians at weddings, funerals, hospitals, and schools in Yemen,&#8221; said Bill Van Esveld, senior children&#8217;s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A Saudi-led Coalition airstrike on a school bus in Yemen that killed dozens of children last month is an &#8220;apparent war crime,&#8221; Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Sunday.The attack on a bus carrying dozens of schoolboys on a field trip was later revealed by CNN to have been carried out by an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627","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=13627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}