{"id":24662,"date":"2018-12-07T12:28:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T12:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24662"},"modified":"2018-12-07T12:28:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T12:28:45","slug":"houthi-militia-shell-commercial-center-in-hodeidah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24662","title":{"rendered":"Houthi militia shell commercial center in Hodeidah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1417036\/middle-east\" readability=\"64\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: As peace talks between Yemeni government representatives and a Houthi delegation began on Thursday in Sweden, local reports from Yemen said that a group of Houthi militias shelled a commercial center in Hodeidah. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nLocal sources told Yemen\u2019s official news agency Saba New that \u201cthe Houthi militia shelled the CityMax center with a mortar and artillery, which destroyed the center and burnt the building completely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe commercial center contained commercial goods worth tens of billions of riyals,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"image\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/userimages\/980546\/154411977410933293.jpg\" width=\"892\"><figcaption>\n<em>The Houthi militia shelled the CityMax <\/em><g class=\"gr_ gr_95 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace\" data-gr-id=\"95\" id=\"95\"><em>center<\/em><\/g><em> with a mortar and artillery. (Photo courtesy: SabaNew)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nLocal reports also claimed that Houthi militia targeted a number of civilian houses with mortars on Wednesday. The shells fell on a number of houses, causing total destruction and damage to other houses. One family was believed to haven been killed in the attack, however Arab News cannot independently conform this report.<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, during the Stockholm peace talks, the warring parties agreed to a prisoner swap that will allow thousands of families to be reunited, United Nations special envoy Martin Griffiths said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe talks mark the first meeting between Yemen\u2019s legitimate government and Houthi militants, backed by Iran, since 2016, when 106 days of negotiations yielded no breakthrough in a war that has pushed 14 million people to the brink of famine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: As peace talks between Yemeni government representatives and a Houthi delegation began on Thursday in Sweden, local reports from Yemen said that a group of Houthi militias shelled a commercial center in Hodeidah. \u00a0 Local sources told Yemen\u2019s official news agency Saba New that \u201cthe Houthi militia shelled the CityMax center with a mortar&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24662","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\/24662","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=24662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}