{"id":17624,"date":"2018-10-08T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17624"},"modified":"2018-10-08T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T12:55:08","slug":"thousands-of-yemeni-children-malnourished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17624","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Yemeni children malnourished"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"75\">\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of children are suffering acute malnutrition because of the war in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, we reported how two-year-old Bassam Hassan&#8217;s parents in the Houthi-controlled north could not afford to take him to the capital Sanaa for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthi administration&#8217;s health minister saw Bassam\u2019s story on Al Jazeera English and ordered that Bassam be brought for treatment. His condition might improve or he might need treatment from an outside specialist.<\/p>\n<p>But even the health minister may not be able to manage that because the Saudi-UAE coalition has shut down Yemeni airspace, trapping Bassam, as well as the estimated 95,000 other Yemenis in need of treatment abroad, inside the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Bernard Smith reports from neighbouring Djibouti.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of children are suffering acute malnutrition because of the war in Yemen. Two weeks ago, we reported how two-year-old Bassam Hassan&#8217;s parents in the Houthi-controlled north could not afford to take him to the capital Sanaa for treatment. The Houthi administration&#8217;s health minister saw Bassam\u2019s story on Al Jazeera English and ordered&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17624","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\/17624","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=17624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}