{"id":5219,"date":"2017-12-21T13:05:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T13:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5219-oxfam-slams-medieval-saudi-led-blockade\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T13:05:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T13:05:29","slug":"oxfam-slams-medieval-saudi-led-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5219-oxfam-slams-medieval-saudi-led-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxfam slams \u2018medieval\u2019 Saudi-led blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen is being pushed ever closer to famine after 1,000 days of Saudi Arabian-led war and \u201cmedieval\u201d blockade, says an international charity group.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Yemen is being pushed ever closer to famine after 1,000 days of Saudi Arabian-led war and \u201cmedieval\u201d blockade, says an international charity group.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cFor 1,000 days, huge amounts of sophisticated modern weapons have pounded Yemen, and on top of that, we are now witnessing a medieval siege where mass starvation is being used as a weapon of war,\u201d Mark Goldring, Oxfam Great Britain\u2019s chief executive, said on Wednesday.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cCutting off vital food, fuel and medicine to a population is never justified and should never be tolerated. It is tactic that is devoid of any sense of decency, any sense of morality and any sense of humanity,\u201d he said.<\/h4>\n<h4>He said some of the countries that have been supporting the Saudi-led war by selling arms to Saudi Arabia are starting to voice concern.<\/h4>\n<h4>Oxfam has warned that more than 8.4 million Yemenis are now at acute risk of famine due to Saudi Arabia\u2019s crippling blockade of Yemen\u2019s key ports, which is causing a halt to the delivery of food, fuel, and medicine.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen is being pushed ever closer to famine after 1,000 days of Saudi Arabian-led war and \u201cmedieval\u201d blockade, says an international charity group. \u00a0 Yemen is being pushed ever closer to famine after 1,000 days of Saudi Arabian-led war and \u201cmedieval\u201d blockade, says an international charity group. \u201cFor 1,000 days, huge amounts of sophisticated modern &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[459,364,38,68],"class_list":["post-5219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-international","tag-oxfam","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-yemen"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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