{"id":17837,"date":"2019-04-03T10:02:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T02:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17837"},"modified":"2019-04-03T10:10:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T02:10:18","slug":"fierce-clashes-break-out-in-yemens-hodeidah-amid-un-efforts-to-maintain-cease-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17837","title":{"rendered":"Fierce Clashes Break Out In Yemen&#8217;s Hodeidah Amid UN Efforts To Maintain Cease-Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SANAA, Yemen, April 3 (NNN-SABA) &#8211; Heavy clashes and artillery shelling erupted, on Tuesday night, between Yemeni government forces and Houthi rebels, on the south-eastern edges of Hodeidah port city, amid UN peace efforts to maintain the cease-fire deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents said, the fighting was concentrated at Rabasah neighbourhood, Sanaa street, Hodeidah airport and Red Sea mills, with no casualties reported yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The escalation came, hours after the World Food Programme was denied access to the city&#8217;s mills, to fumigate over 51,000 tonnes of wheat aid at risk of rotting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United Nations has warned against targeting food aid, which could risk lives of millions of Yemenis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian-allied Houthi rebels control the city, while the Saudi-backed government troops have advanced to the south-eastern outskirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hodeidah is the key lifeline entry point for the country&#8217;s most food imports and humanitarian aid. The four-year grinding war has pushed over 20 million to the verge of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yemeni warring parties reached the peace deal on Hodeidah in Dec last year, as a first step towards striking a comprehensive political solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have largely held the cease-fire deal but failed to withdraw their forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN Special Envoy, Martin Griffiths, has been shuttling between the rival sides to push the deal towards implementation.&#8211; NNN-SABA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANAA, Yemen, April 3 (NNN-SABA) &#8211; Heavy clashes and artillery shelling erupted, on Tuesday night, between Yemeni government forces and Houthi rebels, on the south-eastern edges of Hodeidah port city, amid UN peace efforts to maintain the cease-fire deal. Residents said, the fighting was concentrated at Rabasah neighbourhood, Sanaa street, Hodeidah airport and Red Sea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17837"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}