{"id":8856,"date":"2019-09-01T15:35:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T10:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=8856"},"modified":"2019-09-01T15:35:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T10:35:27","slug":"saudi-airstrikes-on-yemen-prison-kill-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/8856","title":{"rendered":"Saudi airstrikes on Yemen prison kill 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of\u00a0 Saudi-led <em>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0airstrikes on a prison in southwestern\u00a0 Yemen have killed\u00a0 \u00a0at least 60 prisoners, \u00a0Houthi rebels said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Rebel spokesman Mohamed Abdul-Salam said on Twitter that 100 people were injured in the attack, which targeted a detention center in the city of Dhamar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The prison is known to the coalition and the Red Cross, which visited the site several times,&#8221; Abdul-Qadir al-Murtada, the head of a Houthi-run committee for prisoner affairs, said on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>While,\u00a0 Saudi-led coalition said in a statement that the airstrikes targeted a site storing drones and missiles.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, a Houthi-run detention center in Dhamar was struck by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike, killing at least 25 prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the Saudi-backed Yemeni government accused Houthi rebels of using prisoners as human shields.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen has remained wracked by violence since 2014, when the Iran-aligned Houthi group overran much of the country, including the capital Sanaa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of\u00a0 Saudi-led \u00a0\u00a0airstrikes on a prison in southwestern\u00a0 Yemen have killed\u00a0 \u00a0at least 60 prisoners, \u00a0Houthi rebels said on Sunday. Rebel spokesman Mohamed Abdul-Salam said on Twitter that 100 people were injured in the attack, which targeted a detention center in the city of Dhamar. &#8220;The prison is known to the coalition and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8858,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions\/8858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}