{"id":22626,"date":"2018-11-21T08:22:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T08:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22626"},"modified":"2018-11-21T08:22:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T08:22:33","slug":"85000-children-under-5-may-have-died-of-starvation-in-yemen-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22626","title":{"rendered":"85,000 children under 5 may have died of starvation in Yemen war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>British charity Save the Children says that an estimated 85,000 children under the age of 5\u00a0may have died from extreme hunger or disease since the war in Yemen escalated more than three years ago. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Through new analysis of UN data, the charity found that between April 2015 and October 2018, about 84,701 children under 5 died from untreated cases of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/nutrition\/topics\/malnutrition\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">severe acute malnutrition<\/a> &#8212; or in simple terms, hunger. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">These grim figures, detailing the horrors of the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crisis, come as intense fighting has again erupted in Yemen&#8217;s strategic port city of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/20\/middleeast\/yemen-hodeidah-saudi-houthi-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hodeidah <\/a>&#8212; a vital entry point for UN and other humanitarian aid and the center of the conflict between the US-backed Saudi-led coalition and the Iranian-aligned Houthis.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)British charity Save the Children says that an estimated 85,000 children under the age of 5\u00a0may have died from extreme hunger or disease since the war in Yemen escalated more than three years ago. Through new analysis of UN data, the charity found that between April 2015 and October 2018, about 84,701 children under 5&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22626","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\/22626","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=22626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}