{"id":105149,"date":"2015-04-04T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=105149"},"modified":"2015-04-04T16:03:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T16:03:29","slug":"red-cross-seeks-24-hour-ceasefire-in-yemen-to-deliver-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=105149","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross seeks 24-hour ceasefire in Yemen to deliver aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Saturday for an immediate 24-hour halt to hostilities in Yemen to deliver life-saving medical aid into the country where it said the humanitarian situation was dire and wounded were dying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;All air, land and sea routes must be opened without delay for at least 24 hours to enable help to reach people cut off after more than a week of intense air strikes and fierce ground fighting nationwide,&#8221; the ICRC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aid agency, which said earlier that the Saudi-led military coalition conducting air strikes in Yemen was still blocking three shipments of aid and medical staff, is negotiating with all parties, spokeswoman Sitara Jabeen said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Because there have been positive developments in our discussions, we are hopeful of getting all clearances needed by Sunday,&#8221; she told Reuters. (Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Louise Ireland)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Saturday for an immediate 24-hour halt to hostilities in Yemen to deliver life-saving medical aid into the country where it said the humanitarian situation was dire and wounded were dying. &#8220;All air, land and sea routes must be opened without delay for at least 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":105150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-105149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}