Houthis storm UN buildings in Yemeni capital after Israel killed PM and other ministers

The Iran -backed Houthi rebels suppressed the offices of the two United Nations agency in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday after saying that Israel had killed the prime minister of the government controlled by the rebel.

Offices World Food Program (WFP) and the United Nations Children’s Agency (UNICEF) Sunday Sunday Sunday entered by local security forces ”, the spokesman of the agencies CNN’ye said in separate statements.

According to the statements, a series of WFP personnel, such as UNICEF staff, were detained.

The agencies, “urgently looking for additional information” from the local authorities, said the spokesmen CNN: “Our emergency priority is the security and welfare of our staff.”

It is unclear whether the raids are associated with Israel’s attacks. Houthis have previously targeted UN and other international organizations.

According to the Yemen State News Agency Saba News, the unbearable government strongly condemned the actions of Moammar Al-Eyani’s information Minister Houthis.

In the meantime, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the strikes that killed Prime Minister Ahmed Al-Rhawi Yemen Houthi rebels are the “only beginning” of his country’s campaign against the group.

Al-Rhaawi was killed with other Houthi officials on a strike on Thursday, and he confirmed the revenge of the attack.

Rebel group It launches missiles regularly In Israel and attacks Red Sea ShipsWhat he says is revenge on Israel’s attack in Gaza.

Netanyahu promised that Houthis would pay a very heavy price for their aggression against the Israeli state ”.

Israel leader told a government meeting on Sunday, “We are doing no one in front of us, and this is the beginning of the strikes against senior officials in Sanaa – we will reach all of them,” he said.

Since 2014, it has been divided between a Houthi government that controls most of Yemen, Sanaa and the North, and a rival but more commonly recognized administration in the South.

Eugenia Yosef and Max Saltman from CNN contributed to this report.

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