{"id":39748,"date":"2019-06-15T12:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T12:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39748"},"modified":"2019-06-15T12:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T12:22:49","slug":"saudi-led-arab-coalition-targets-houthi-sites-in-sanaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39748","title":{"rendered":"Saudi-led Arab coalition targets Houthi sites in Sanaa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1511111\/middle-east\" readability=\"52\">\n<p>\nThe Saudi-led coalition targeted Houthi military sites in Sanaa on Saturday, including the militia\u2019s air defense systems, Al Arabiya reported.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe spokesperson of the coalition, Col. Turki Al-Maliki the operation aimed to destroy the Houthi militia\u2019s threat to regional and international security.<\/p>\n<p>\nAl-Maliki affirmed that the targeting process was consistent with international humanitarian law, asserting that all preventive measures were taken to protect civilians.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said that civilians were warned not to approach the target sites in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe operation came just days after Saudi Arabia\u2019s air defense forces shot down five drones launched by Houthi militia towards the southern border region of Asir.<\/p>\n<p>\nCol. Al-Maliki said the drones were targeted at Abha International Airport and the city of Khamis Mushayt on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saudi-led coalition targeted Houthi military sites in Sanaa on Saturday, including the militia\u2019s air defense systems, Al Arabiya reported. The spokesperson of the coalition, Col. Turki Al-Maliki the operation aimed to destroy the Houthi militia\u2019s threat to regional and international security. Al-Maliki affirmed that the targeting process was consistent with international humanitarian law, asserting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39748","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\/39748","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=39748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}