{"id":23484,"date":"2018-11-27T18:23:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23484"},"modified":"2018-11-27T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:23:47","slug":"iranian-sunni-cleric-shot-killed-in-northern-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23484","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Sunni cleric shot, killed in northern Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<h2>UNICEF warns of &#8216;dire&#8217; winter risks for 1m children in Middle East and North Africa<\/h2>\n<div readability=\"51\">\n<p>\nAMMAN: The UN children\u2019s fund warned Tuesday that a funding gap and the start of winter could leave nearly one million children \u201cout in the cold\u201d in the Middle East and North Africa.<br \/>\u201cYears of conflict, displacement and unemployment have reduced families\u2019 financial resources to almost nothing. Staying warm has simply become unaffordable,\u201d said Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.<br \/>The UN agency said it was facing a $33-million funding gap \u2013- two thirds of its total allocation \u2014 for assistance to children across the region this winter.<br \/>Cold and rainy weather would hit those living in extremely basic conditions, especially camps or crowded shelters with little protection.<br \/>\u201cWith cold and rainy weather sweeping across the Middle East and North Africa, nearly one million children affected by crises in the region risk being left out in the cold,\u201d Cappelaere said in a statement.<br \/>\u201cWith little nutritious food and health care, children have grown weak, becoming prone to hypothermia and dangerous respiratory diseases,\u201d he said.<br \/>UNICEF said it aims this winter to reach 1.3 million children in Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Egypt, providing them with warm clothes, thermal blankets, clean water and other hygiene support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNICEF warns of &#8216;dire&#8217; winter risks for 1m children in Middle East and North Africa AMMAN: The UN children\u2019s fund warned Tuesday that a funding gap and the start of winter could leave nearly one million children \u201cout in the cold\u201d in the Middle East and North Africa.\u201cYears of conflict, displacement and unemployment have reduced&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23484","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\/23484","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=23484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}