{"id":79603,"date":"2018-05-24T09:28:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T13:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79603"},"modified":"2018-05-24T09:28:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T13:28:40","slug":"yemen-national-army-finds-child-used-for-human-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79603","title":{"rendered":"Yemen National Army finds child used for human shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gulfnews.com\/news\/gulf\/yemen\/yemen-girl-being-used-as-human-shield-saved-1.2224171#.WwaSvW_iWBg.facebook\">Gulf News<\/a> reports that the Yemen National Army encountered a vehicle from the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. The driver, a Houthi commander also had a 4-year-old girl in the vehicle, his daughter, wearing boy&#8217;s clothing, who they were using as a human shield;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Upon investigation, it was discovered the driver was her father, an Al Houthi militia field commander carrying advanced tactical weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The child was being used as a human shield on the battlefield, as the terrorist Iranian-backed Al Houthi militia knew the coalition\u2019s rules of engagement, especially those related to child protection.<\/p>\n<p>The Coalition Joint Forces, represented by its Child Protection Unit, provided necessary medical care to the child, communicated and coordinated her safe transfer to her family. She was handed over to the legitimate government of Yemen, in the presence of her family and relatives yesterday. The Joint Forces Command also provided financial aid to the child and her family.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Al Malki said Al Houthi actions are in flagrant defiance of international humanitarian law, as they involve recruiting children, putting them on the battlefield and using them as human shields.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf News reports that the Yemen National Army encountered a vehicle from the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. &hellip; <a title=\"Yemen National Army finds child used for human shield\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79603\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yemen National Army finds child used for human shield<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}