CAIRO (AP) — Iran-backed hoosies at the Sunday attack offices of the UN Food, Health and Children’s Agency in Yemen’s capital, detained 11 UN employees, officials said. The rebels then crossed Sanaa to increase security. Israel killed the prime minister and several cabinet members.
Abeer Etefa, a spokesman for the World Food Program, told The Associated Press on Sunday morning that security forces stormed the offices of the capital agency in the Houthi-controlled capital.
The World Health Organization and UNICEF offices were also attacked, according to UN officials and Houthi officials. The UN said the troops stormed the office and questioned parking staff.
Ammar Ammar, a UNICEF spokesman, said many agency staff were in custody and UNICEF had sought additional information from Houthis.
Both Etefa and Ammar said their institutions are doing “comprehensive head count” of employees in areas owned by Sanaa and other Houthi.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres In a statement late Sunday, at least 11 staff members were in custody. He condemned it, “treating forced entry into the World Food Program site, seizing UN property, and attempting to enter other UN facilities in Sanaa.” He called for immediate and unconditional release of personnel.
The attack was the latest Long-term repression of the Hooty against the United Nations and other international organizations working in Yemen’s rebel regions.
They detain dozens of UN staff and people associated with aid groups, civil society and the now-closed US embassy in Sanaa. The United Nations has stopped its operation At Sadah’s base in northern Yemen after rebels detained eight UN staff in January.
At least five ministers have been confirmed killed in Israeli strikes
Sunday’s attack came shortly after the murders of Prime Minister Hooty and several members of his cabinet on an Israeli strike on Thursday. It was a blow to the Iran-backed rebels that launched an attack on Israel. Ships in the Red Sea In relation to the Israeli-Hamas War in the Gaza Strip.
Among the dead were Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi, Foreign Minister Gamal Ama, Deputy Prime Minister Mohamed al-Medani, Electricity Minister Ali Seyf Hassan, Tourism Minister Ali Al Yafei and Information Minister Hashim Sharahruddin.
The murdered was also the powerful vice-chairman Abdel Majed al-Murtada, a Hooty official said.
They were targeted at “regular workshops held by the government to assess its activities and performance over the past year,” a statement from Houthi said on Saturday, two days after the strike. Houthis said funerals for all those killed are scheduled for Monday at Sabeen Square in central Sanaa.
Defence Minister Mohamed Nasser al-Attefi survived the attack, but Abdel Karim al-Houthi, the home minister and one of the most powerful figures in the rebel group, did not attend the meeting on Thursday, a Hooty official said.
The UN envoy for Yemen’s Hans Grandberg has expressed “great concern” over Israel’s recent strike in areas controlled by Hooty following the Hooty attack on Israel.
“Yemen cannot afford to be a battlefield for wider geopolitical conflicts,” he said in a statement. He sought escalation.
Thursday’s strike was attacked with ballistic missiles that Hausis attacked Israel on August 21, which its troops described as the first cluster bomb launched by rebels in Israel since 2023. The missile, which the Houtis said urged sirens in air raids through Jerusalem in central Israel and central Jerusalem, evacuated Million.
Houthis is likely to escalate attacks on Israel and the Red Sea after it vowed in July Target merchant ship Regardless of nationality, it belongs to a company that operates with the port of Israel.
“Our military approach to targeting Israeli enemies, whether with missiles, drones or naval blockades, is continuing, stable and escalating,” Al Houch, the group’s secret leader, said in a speech on television on Sunday.
