{"id":25510,"date":"2018-12-14T03:24:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T03:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25510"},"modified":"2018-12-14T03:24:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T03:24:41","slug":"2-babies-die-at-camp-for-displaced-in-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25510","title":{"rendered":"2 babies die at camp for displaced  in Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1420396\/middle-east\" readability=\"68\">\n<p>\nAMMAN:\u00a0Two babies have died of illness in the past week at a camp for displaced people on the Syrian border with Jordan, the UN children\u2019s agency UNICEF said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe deaths prompted UNICEF to reiterate calls for humanitarian access for the thousands of people at Rukban camp, which lies in an inhospitable stretch of desert.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAnother sad week for children and families in Rukban. Two sick babies under six months old died in Rukban,\u201d said Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cFreezing temperatures and lack of supplies including of basic commodities, threaten the lives of nearly 45,000 people \u2014 among them many children, leaving them at the risk of disease and death,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\nLast month the UN and Syrian Arab Red Crescent announced the first delivery of humanitarian aid at Rukban in 10 months.<\/p>\n<p>\nCivilians trapped at the camp face the risk of starvation amid a deteriorating humanitarian situation after Jordan sealed its border following a Daesh attack on its soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>\nSoon afterwards, the army declared Jordan\u2019s desert regions that stretch northeast to Syria and east to Iraq \u201cclosed military zones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAmman believes the responsibility of the camp lies with Damascus since it is inside Syrian territory.<\/p>\n<p>\nSyria has been embroiled in a civil war that killed more than 360,000 people and displaced millions since it started with the brutal repression of anti-government protests in 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMMAN:\u00a0Two babies have died of illness in the past week at a camp for displaced people on the Syrian border with Jordan, the UN children\u2019s agency UNICEF said Thursday. The deaths prompted UNICEF to reiterate calls for humanitarian access for the thousands of people at Rukban camp, which lies in an inhospitable stretch of desert.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25510","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\/25510","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=25510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}