Houthis detain at least one UN worker in raids on two agencies in Sana’a | Yemen
Iran -backed Houthis, the United Nations in the capital of Yemen’s food and child agencies, and at least one UN employee detained, the authorities, Israel’s prime ministers and a few cabinet members after killing Sana’a said they were bored.
World Food Program spokesman Abeer Etefa said that security forces raided the offices of the agencies in the Houthi controlled capital on Sunday morning. “WFP reiterates that it is unacceptable to detain human personnel,” Etefa said.
UNICEF spokesman Ammar Ammar said that there was a “ongoing situation ilişkin about his offices in Sana’a without further details.
The UN official said that contacts with a few other WFP and UNICEF employees have disappeared and that they would be detained.
The raids were the last of the Houthi pressure that has been going on for a long time against other international organizations working in the UN and Yemen. In addition to dozens of UN staff, aid groups detained civil society and now related people to the United States Embassy.
After the UN detained eight UN personnel in January, the UN suspended operations in Houthi Castle of Saada in Northern Yemen.
The raids on Sunday came after the killing of many of the Houthi Prime Minister and his cabinet on Thursday at the Israeli strike, which was a blow to the rebellion that launched an attack on Israel in Gaza and sent to the Red Sea.
Prime Minister Ahmed Al-Rhawi among the dead; Foreign Minister Gamal Amer; Deputy Prime Minister and Local Development Minister Mohammed Al-Medani; Electrical Minister Ali Seif Hassan; Tourism Minister Ali Al-Afaii; And according to the two Houthi officials and the families of the victims, Hashim Sharafuldin.
Houthi officials were also killed, a strong Deputy Interior Minister Abdel-Majed al-Murtada, he said. A Houthi statement, two days after the strike on Saturday, a Houthi statement was targeted by the government during a routine workshop organized by the government to evaluate last year’s activities and performance.
Houthi officials, Defense Minister Mohamed Nasser Al-Attefi’s Interior Minister and one of the most powerful figures of the rebellious group Abdel-Karim Al-Houthi’nin said he did not attend the Thursday meeting.
Houthis attacked Israel on August 21 with a ballistic missile that its army described as the first cluster bomb launched in Israel since 2023. The missile, which Houthis said it was aimed at Ben Gurion Airport, forced millions of people to shelters, central Israel and Jerusalem.
Houthis will increase their attacks on Israel and the Red Sea, after promising to targeting trading traders of any company that does business with Israeli ports independently of nationality.
“Our military approach to targeting the enemy of Israel, our military approach to targeting the enemy of Israel, is constantly, stable and increasing, continuous, continuous, continuous, continuous, continuous,”
