{"id":492027,"date":"2022-05-18T09:45:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T04:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=492027"},"modified":"2022-05-18T10:54:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T05:24:40","slug":"first-commercial-flight-takes-off-from-sanaa-raising-hopes-for-yemen-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/first-commercial-flight-takes-off-from-sanaa-raising-hopes-for-yemen-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"First commercial flight takes off from Sanaa, raising hopes for Yemen peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen\u2019s national airline operated on Monday its first commercial flight from the capital Sanaa since 2016, raising hopes a UN-brokered truce could be a stepping stone towards a lasting peace that could improve the lives of desperate Yemenis.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Yemenis, including patients who waited years for medical treatment, went through security checks in the airport\u2019s terminal which has been deserted since 2015, excited and relieved at the prospect of being able to travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have waited for this trip for three years. Because of my father\u2019s health condition, we couldn\u2019t take him by land to Aden. Praise be God, the relief has come,\u201d said Ismail al-Wazan before boarding a flight to Amman with his father in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen\u2019s national airline operated on Monday its first commercial flight from the capital Sanaa since 2016, raising hopes a UN-brokered truce could be a stepping stone towards a lasting peace that could improve the lives of desperate Yemenis. Dozens of Yemenis, including patients who waited years for medical treatment, went through security checks in the airport\u2019s terminal which has been deserted since 2015, excited and relieved at the prospect of being able to travel. \u201cWe have waited for this trip for three years. Because of my father\u2019s health condition, we couldn\u2019t take him by land to Aden. Praise be God, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}