{"id":30152,"date":"2019-01-22T16:23:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T16:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30152"},"modified":"2019-01-22T16:23:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T16:23:13","slug":"one-killed-and-several-injured-in-houthi-attack-in-taiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30152","title":{"rendered":"One killed and several injured in Houthi attack in Taiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"50\">\n<p>\nGAZA CITY: A fresh tranche of Qatari funds for Hamas civil servants in Gaza will be delivered via Israel this week, the Qatar ambassador to the Palestinian enclave said Monday.<br \/>Mohammed Al-Emadi is expected to bring the $15 million into the strip in the coming days, with funds to be distributed immediately.<br \/>\u201cWe are due to go to Gaza before the end of the week, most likely on Wednesday night,\u201d Emadi told AFP by message from Doha. \u201cWe will pay the third payment,\u201d he added, referring to two payments in previous months.<br \/>The funds pay the salaries of roughly 40,000 Hamas civil servants, as well as providing financial assistance to poor families in the empoverished strip.<br \/>They are injected with Israeli blessings after an informal truce deal between the Jewish state and the strip\u2019s Islamist rulers Hamas.<br \/>Under the deal months of Hamas-backed protests along the border remain relatively quiet.<br \/>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has faced right-wing criticism of the agreement, with his defense minister resigning in November accusing him of being soft on Hamas.<br \/>Separately Monday the World Health Organization warned it was \u201cconcerned\u201d over the impact of critical fuel shortages in Gaza.<br \/>The strip suffers from chronic energy shortages, though the crisis had been eased in recent months with Qatar also allowed to import fuel to run Gaza\u2019s sole power plant.<br \/>\u201cThe functionality of Gaza\u2019s 14 public hospitals is increasingly jeopardized by electricity shortages,\u201d the WHO said in a statement.<br \/>\u201cSeveral of the most severely impacted hospitals have already put rationalization measures in place.<br \/>\u201cDrastic service reductions, including closures of wards and hospitals, are imminent,\u201d it added, saying hospitals had fuel reserves for only a few more days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAZA CITY: A fresh tranche of Qatari funds for Hamas civil servants in Gaza will be delivered via Israel this week, the Qatar ambassador to the Palestinian enclave said Monday.Mohammed Al-Emadi is expected to bring the $15 million into the strip in the coming days, with funds to be distributed immediately.\u201cWe are due to go&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30152","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\/30152","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=30152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}