{"id":1629,"date":"2018-05-24T12:47:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T08:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2018-05-24T12:47:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T08:47:01","slug":"saudi-arabia-intercepts-houthi-missile-over-jazan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/05\/24\/saudi-arabia-intercepts-houthi-missile-over-jazan\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia intercepts Houthi missile over Jazan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has intercepted a ballistic missile fired by the Iranian-backed Houthi militias from the Yemeni Governorate of Saada, targeting the Saudi city of Jazan.<\/p>\n<p>The Spokesperson of the Saudi-led Arab Coalition in Support of the Legitimate Yemeni Government, Colonel Turki Al-Maliki, said that the Coalition&#8217;s air defence forces detected the missile launch from Saada towards Saudi territory, adding that the missile was deliberately targeting civilian and populated areas in Jazan.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Maliki said that this hostile act proves that Iran continues to support the Houthis by supplying them with &#8220;qualitative military capabilities&#8221;, in clear violation of the UNSC resolutions No. 2216 and No. 2231, threating regional and international security. He reiterated that the deliberate targeting of populated urban areas is a grave violation of international and human laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia has intercepted a ballistic missile fired by the Iranian-backed Houthi militias from the Yemeni Governorate of Saada, targeting the Saudi city of Jazan. The Spokesperson of the Saudi-led Arab Coalition in Support of the Legitimate Yemeni Government, Colonel Turki Al-Maliki, said that the Coalition&#8217;s air defence forces detected the missile launch from Saada &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}