{"id":16534,"date":"2018-09-27T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16534"},"modified":"2018-09-27T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T15:24:24","slug":"clashes-in-west-bank-as-israelis-visit-holy-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16534","title":{"rendered":"Clashes in West Bank as Israelis visit holy site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1378736\/middle-east\" readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nADEN: Yemen\u2019s government on Thursday announced it will end its cooperation with a UN human rights mission, accusing investigators of bias after a report on alleged war crimes.<br \/>The government came under fire last month after UN experts highlighted deadly air strikes by the regional Saudi-led coalition supporting it in the war with the Iran-linked Houthi rebels.<br \/>\u201cThe government refuses to extend the mission\u2019s mandate because its findings, outlined in the report, did not meet the standards of professionalism and impartiality or the basic principles of the United Nations,\u201d said a statement carried by the state-run Saba news agency.<br \/>It accused the UN group of \u201cturning a blind eye\u201d to the violations of the Shiite Houthi rebels, who the government has been battling since 2014.<br \/>On Wednesday, the investigators, appointed by the Human Rights Council a year ago, had requested they continue probing the \u201cextremely alarming\u201d situation in Yemen.<br \/>The Saudi-led coalition has dismissed as \u201cinaccurate\u201d and \u201cnon-neutral\u201d the UN experts\u2019 August 28 report, which accused both government forces and the Houthis of violations against international law.<br \/>Yemen\u2019s conflict has left nearly 10,000 people dead since March 2015. It has sparked the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis, with three quarters of the population \u2014 or 22 million people \u2014 in need of humanitarian aid, according to UN figures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADEN: Yemen\u2019s government on Thursday announced it will end its cooperation with a UN human rights mission, accusing investigators of bias after a report on alleged war crimes.The government came under fire last month after UN experts highlighted deadly air strikes by the regional Saudi-led coalition supporting it in the war with the Iran-linked Houthi&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16534","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\/16534","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=16534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}