{"id":274162,"date":"2016-10-20T00:40:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T00:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-minister-brands-saudi-attack-on-yemeni-funeral-deliberate-error\/"},"modified":"2016-10-20T18:51:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:51:03","slug":"uk-minister-brands-saudi-attack-on-yemeni-funeral-deliberate-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-minister-brands-saudi-attack-on-yemeni-funeral-deliberate-error\/","title":{"rendered":"UK minister brands Saudi attack on Yemeni funeral \u2018deliberate error\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0The British minister for the Middle East says the early October attack by Saudi forces on a funeral in Yemen was a \u201cdeliberate error.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 140 people were killed and over 525 wounded on October 8, when a Saudi air raid hit a community hall in the south of the capital Sana\u2019a, where a funeral for the father of Interior Minister Jalal al-Roweishan was being held.<\/p>\n<p>Tobias Ellwood, the British minister for the Middle East, revealed Wednesday that the Saudi monarchy actually ordered the attack, which drew global condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a deliberate error made by an individual who needs to be disciplined,\u201d he said. &#8220;There was a choice made to breach operation procedures, Riyadh said, &#8216;no this attack should not take place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia initially denied responsibility for the fatal attack but on Saturday it finally admitted that the attack was launched by one of it warplanes, which &#8220;wrongly targeted&#8221; the funeral gathering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It did take place and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/10\/19\/489836\/Yemen-funeral-attack-deliberate-error\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The British minister for the Middle East says the early October attack by Saudi forces on a funeral in Yemen was a \u201cdeliberate error.\u201d More than 140 people were killed and over 525 wounded on October 8, when a Saudi air raid hit a community hall in the south of the capital Sana\u2019a, where a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-274162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}